27 Pageviews Read Stories
- EIN 87-0695112
- (972) 669-9730
- 501 W Pres George Bush Hwy 130 Richardson TX 75080-0000 USA
- www.powersig.org
- Add to Favorites
Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Mission: To provide a support organization and forum for the advancement and adoption of certain power management system technologies and associated applications based on national and international standards. To support the rapid advancement of an efficient and compatible technology base that promotes power management and implementations. The organization will carry out these purposes by providing a forum for members to review requirements and specifications for product compatibility, educating business and consumer communities as to the value of the power management technologies, protecting the needs of consumers by supporting the implementation of compliance test procedures and processes, maintaining relationships with educational and governmental institutions that support and contribute to the development of specifications and standards, and by fostering competition in the development of new technologies in conformance with antitrust laws and regulations.
Programs: Hosted website that provides information about the organization and the standards and specifications that it supports.
hosted monthly document review board meeting to facilitate discussion of the standards and specifications supported by the organization, and plans for their further development
attended the applied power electronics conference and exposition (apec) held at the fort worth convention center, march 18, 2014, and introduced the revised pmbus power system management protocol specification v1. 3. Held a follow-up session entitled live q&a: find out more about revision 1. 3 of the pmbus specification the pmbus power system management protocol specification provides a standardized method of communication to power conversion and power management devices. A set of power supply oriented commands provides a common method for configuring, controlling and monitoring power. The pmbus protocol is transported over the smbus serial bus due to its cost effectiveness and common use in the market. I2c compatible designs of the smbus allow pmbus use in a number of markets that are familiar with and that already implement this form of serial bus. System designs using smbus or i2c use a host controller to master the bus.