The use of dynamically adjustable power supplies as a method to lower power dissipation in DSP is analyzed. Power can be reduced substantially without sacrificing performance in fixed-throughput applications by slowing the clock and lowering supply voltage instead of idling when computational workload varies. This can yield a typical power savings of 30–50%. If latency can be tolerated, bufferi...

Pulsed power application has emerged to become an important technology in today’s industry beyond defense sectors, although historically the applications included particle acceleration, imploding plasmas and related. Pulsed power refers to the technology where a steady accumulation of energy followed by its rapid release, results in the delivery of a large amount of instantaneous power over a v...

We compare the demand of a large electricity consumer with supply given by wind farms installed at two distant geographic locations. Obviously such situation is rather unrealistic, however our main goal is a quantitative characterization of the intermittency of wind electricity. The consumption pattern consists of marked daily and weekly cycles interrupted by periods of holidays. In contrast, w...

The reliability standards for electricity supply in a developing country, like Nigeria, have to be determined on past engineering principles and practice. Because of the high demand of electrical power due to rapid development, industrialization and rural electrification; the economic, social and political climate in which the electric power supply industry now operates should be critically vie...