Solar, wind will be first choice for remote power by 2011

Solar, wind will be first choice for remote power by 2011

Nature powers mobile in rural Namibia

Nature powers mobile in rural Namibia

A page for Tree Huggers

Gautam,
You'll find this page interesting.
-Arvindh

application list

Hi Gautam,

Thank you for inviting me here. It is great communication tool. Since we didn't see you last class, Pls allow me to update you something about project progress. We discussed our project charter with Dr. Picken who suggested us to outline 10 applications on off-grid and wireless sensor system, espically on agriculture, communication, remote area, ect. Also, he suggested us to communicate with other groups to get information you may use.

So, we may come out the list in the coming week and find information as much as we can.

BR,
Gary

Fw: MIT OCW

----- Original Message -----

From: achu

To: Hande, Abhiman A ; Arvindh R ; Gautam Talagery

Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:24 PM

Subject: MIT OCW

Course from MIT on Entr

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Sloan-School-of-Management/15-835Entrepreneurial-MarketingSpring2002/LectureNotes/index.htm

Thought someone might want to take a look at it.

Cheers,
Achutan

Harvard Business Review - Video

The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy Professor Michael E. Porter, Harvard University
Harvard Business Review - Video

Home Power Magazine: Solar | Wind | Water | Design | Build

Home Power Magazine: Solar | Wind | Water | Design | Build

Intro to Home Based Renewable Energy Systems

home based system for micro-hydro-electric power generation
Home Power Magazine: Solar | Wind | Water | Design | Build

home-based system for wind power generation
http://www.homepower.com/basics/wind/

home-based system for solar power generation
http://www.homepower.com/basics/solar/

MEMS growth rate forecast: msg#00046

MEMS growth rate forecast: msg#00046

ships_IMUs_121505.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Manufacturing technology for MEMS
ships_IMUs_121505.pdf (application/pdf Object)

2011 MEMS Market to Hit $10B - 9/11/2007 5:30:00 AM - Semiconductor International

At last.. a good article on the state of the MEMS business
2011 MEMS Market to Hit $10B - 9/11/2007 5:30:00 AM - Semiconductor International

micro.pdf (application/pdf Object)

The Role of Microsystems (MST) in Sustainable
Development: A Scoping Study
micro.pdf (application/pdf Object)

29_3 MNT Roadmaps.pdf (application/pdf Object)

good listing of apps
29_3 MNT Roadmaps.pdf (application/pdf Object)

28_7 MEMS Test Challenges Applications solutions and future visionsl.pdf (application/pdf Object)

28_7 MEMS Test Challenges Applications solutions and future visionsl.pdf (application/pdf Object)

WTEC: Reports

A lot of good reports
WTEC: Reports

MEMS in Japan (2003)
http://www.wtec.org/mems1/

MEMS in Europe (2000)
http://www.wtec.org/loyola/mcc/mems_eu/index.html

Recovering energy from brakes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy_recovery_system

This article describes how, for example, the Prius is able to recover energy when braking. Essentially the motor becomes a generator when the brakes are applied.

Piezo

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/magazine/16-02/ps_smartclothes

Similar to one of the ideas we discussed

possible applications

control systems:
- piezo senses turbulent air and has a closed loop control system to minimize it
- lubrication based on a thermocouple on a conveyor belt
- solar array with piezo

sensor systems:
- shoe fabric that stores charge, sends heart rate thru rfid tag
- car vibration turns tolltag into an active tag
- patient data transmitted to router powered by solar cell in tubelight
- sensor system on a tree powered by a piezo to track the health of a tree

power conversion:
- wireless power up of a microsystem from a low flying aircraft
- charging of batteries

efficient utilization:
- constant freq, amplitude, length, mass for piezo
- hi elec conductivity, low heat
- solar efficiency
- nano solar
-

Market Trends

A site with a lot of good aticles:
http://www.smalltimes.com/articles/stm_category_display.cfm?c=Elect&CatName=Electronics

NEW MICROSYSTEMS APPLICATIONS
DRIVE FAST GROWTH, STUDY SAYS

http://www.smalltimes.com/articles/article_display.cfm?Section=ARCHI&C=RD&ARTICLE_ID=267742&p=109

By Valerie Thompson
Small Times Correspondent

ZURICH, Switzerland, April 8, 2002 -- A study by members of Europe's key MEMS and microsystems association sees the world market for the products more than doubling from its 2000 level by 2005.

A new market research report from the Network of Excellence in Multifunctional Microsystems (NEXUS), a marketing organization for the microsystems industry, predicts that the worldwide market for microsystems technology (MST) will grow from $30 billion in 2000 to $68 billion in 2005.

NEXUS defines MST as all products that are microstructures in design, including monolithic and hybrid components and silicon-based devices, as well as anything micromachined.

Growth rate over the next five years is expected to be 20 percent each year.

Webcast on MEMS
Overview:
The development of microelectromechanical systems has long been plagued by a lack of standards and a multiplicity of processes - exactly the type of situation which makes the contract manufacturing of precision components difficult. And yet today a crop of nimble MEMS design companies are going into production to make tilt sensors, resonators, microphones, RF switches and more using contract manufacturers. Meanwhile, both industrial and consumer markets pose better opportunities for MEMS makers than they have in years.

Markets

1) http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/481066
Wi-Fi RFID SoC suits real-time location system market.

April 26, 2006 - Operating on 2.4 GHz band, G2C501 active RFID System-on-a-Chip (SoC) uses Wi-Fi(TM) 802.11 compliant PHY/MAC standard to facilitate installation of asset tracking systems. Integrated circuit architecture enables active asset tracking tags to last 5 years at 40 sec report rate with 2 AA batteries. Along with integrated support for multiple location technologies and environmental sensing, SoC offers integrated EPC support to operate as passive RFID tag.

2) http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5251/is_200103/ai_n20105744
Industry booms spawn successful companies, but can one company spawn an industry boom? Rick Snyder thinks so, and he's betting more than $100 million on it. Snyder formed Ardesta L.L.C., which has $100 million to invest in companies that develop and use microsystems. Microsystems are essentially tiny computers that have uses in many industries, including wireless, optical and bio- technology.
But Ardesta officials say the firm isn't just another industry-focused venture-capital firm. It dubs itself an ``industry accelerator,'' because in addition to funding early-stage companies, ..

3) http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EKF/is_n2226_v44/ai_20894029

AMI Targets Gate Array ASIC Conversion Market - American Microsystems' Cutthroat gate array ASICs - Product Announcement

Electronic News, July 6, 1998

Pocatello, Idaho -- With pure gate arrays continuing to shrink in terms of share of the logic market, some companies are holding to their belief this market can still produce some revenue opportunity. American Microsystems Inc. (AMI) is certainly one of those companies; it is rolling out a series of gate array ASICs, dubbed Cutthroat, targeted at the conversion of field programmable gate array (FPGA) to ASIC products.

The gate array line delivers PCI-ready gate-array ASICs with input/output performance of 66MHz and a clock-to-out performance of 5 nanoseconds. AMI is primarily targeting the communications and telecommunications companies that have had trouble developing FPGAs with 66MHz clock speeds.

"The problem with FPGAs is their architectures are relatively slow. It's difficult, at present, to get the FPGA core logic to perform at PCI system clock speeds," said Bob Kirk, AMI's manager of Translation ASICs Methodology Group. "Although the FPGAs have been able to offer TCP (clock-to-out) speeds as low as five nanoseconds, they have difficulty getting the core logic to perform at 66 megahertz."

The gate arrays are based on AMI's 0.5-micron 3.3-volt digital CMOS process. The Cutthroat devices are both 5V and 3.3V tolerant and the gate arrays are available now with prices dependent upon the volume and feature set. AMI's non-recurring engineering (NRE) fees range from $10,000 to $50,000 depending on the size and complexity as well. AMI said it can convert an FPGA design to an ASIC in less than four weeks.

The Cutthroat family also includes enhancements to the memory implementation on the chip. AMI claims to be able to implement RAM on-chip without using a standard cell or embedded memory. AMI said it cuts gate array RAM sizes in half and has an architecture that is similar to Altera's extended array block (EAB) RAM. This also allows for improvements to the routing and placement of the memory on-chip as well.

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