An inspection policy for a standby unit is considered by taking a standby electric generator as an example. The expected cost by the time of the electric power supply failure is derived by rising renewal-type equations. We discuss an optimum checking time which minimizes the expected cost. We further obtain a checking time such that the probability that a standby generator has failed at the tim...

We propose a novel power supply circuit that can make a standby power consumption of an infrared remote (IR) controlled product completely zero. Our proposal is a hybrid power supply circuit combining the energy harvesting and conventional power supply structure. The IR controlled product employing our proposal has no pass of electric current in the standby mode. It is activated by the electrom...

In this paper, four new hybrid digital circuit design techniques, namely, hybrid multi-threshold CMOS complete stack technique, hybrid multi-threshold CMOS partial stack technique, hybrid super cutoff complete stack technique and hybrid super cutoff partial stack technique, have been proposed to reduce the subthreshold leakage power dissipation in standby modes. Techniques available in literatu...

| Low supply voltage requires the device threshold to be reduced in order to maintain performance. Due to the exponential relationship between leakage current and threshold voltage in the weak inversion region, leakage power can be no longer negligible in such circuits. In this paper we present a technique to accurately estimate leakage power by accurately modeling the leakage current in transi...

Medical standby is the provision of emergency medical care and first aid for participants and/or spectators in a pre-planned event. This article describes the framework and the demographics of a medical standby at the 4(th) National Youth Camping and Motivation Program in Pasir Puteh, Kelantan from 30(th) July until the 3(rd) August 2004. The framework of the medical team is described based on ...

Negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) has become a critical reliability phenomena in advanced CMOS technology. In this paper, we propose an analytical temperature-aware dynamic NBTI model, which can be used in two circuit operation cases: executing tasks with different temperatures, and switching between active and standby mode. A PMOS Vth degradation model and a digital circuits’ tempor...

Standby power is electric power that a device consumes when not in present use, but plugged in to a source of power and ready to be used. Present estimates indicate that standby power consumption reaches 10 to 15 percent of total residential electrical use. In this paper, we propose a Host-Agent based standby power control mechanism in home network environment. It uses the IEEE 802.15.4 based Z...

Abstract: This paper proposes a new scheme to improve the standby efficiency of the high-power half-bridge line level control (LLC) resonant converter. This new circuit is applicable to improving the efficiency of the renewable energy generation system in distributed power systems. The main purpose is to achieve high-efficiency solar and wind power and stable output under different load conditi...