In this paper, we model a cold standby repairable system with one repairman. Suppose that the system consists of two dissimilar components and one repairman, in which component 1 is the major working unit and component 2 is the cold stand-by unit, component 1 has priority in use and repair; then the repairman takes a single vacation. Under these assumptions , we derive a model of partial differ...

In this paper we concern ourselves with the problem of minimizing the standby power consumption in some of the house hold appliances. Here we propose a remote controlled device through which we could reduce the amount of standby power consumed by the electrical appliances connected to it. This device provides an option of controlling each of the appliances connected to it individually or as a w...

An electric pacemaker may, under certain circumstances, compete with an intrinsic cardiac rhythm and share control of the heart. Should an electric stimulus fall in the vulnerable phase of the ventricular cycle, potentially dangerous arrhythmias may be provoked (Sowton, 1965; Siddons and Sowton, 1967; Bilitch, Cosby, and Cafferky, 1967). " Ventricular-programmed " or " demand " pacemakers, whic...

Canary bitcells act as online monitors in a feedback architecture to sense the proximity to the Data Retention Voltage (DRV) for core SRAM bitcells during standby voltage scaling. This approach implements aggressive standby VDD scaling by tracking PVT variations and gives the flexibility to tradeoff between the safety of data and decreased leakage power. A 90nm 128Kb SRAM test chip confirms tha...

A power management controller circuit with a switched-capacitor mode down-regulator and a battery charger block for semi-active radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags was proposed and fabricated. The major achievement of the proposed switched-capacitor mode downregulator and battery charger block is providing a low standby current internal voltage supply circuit and self-controlled thin fil...