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1. June 17, 2007
   Power Systems Design Europe is the leading European publication focused exclusively on the technical needs of power electronics engineering professionals.
   Its June 2007 edition featured Systel technology as part of its special report on PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Europe 2007 International Exhibition and Conference in an article entitled "Systel's Digital Control Makes Lighting Control Simple".
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2. April 21, 2007
   "Highlight", the leading German lighting industry magazine, reports in its latest March/April 2007 edition about the IDC2000 IC family Lighting Evaluation Kit availability and the capabilities of the IDC2000 technology.
   In addition, the magazine was mailed out with Systel's supplementary flyer entitled "A Novel Family of Power Management ICs based on Digital Technology for Lighting and Building Control Applications" as well as with a CD with Systel's PDK-L3 design tool for fluorescent lighting ballast and wall control for lighting building control.
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3. Nov 8, 2006
   The PETs November article "Digital Power Breaks Through Bit-by-Bit" , discussing Systel's UPMC technology
   By Mark Valentine, Technical Editor, Power Electronics Technology:
   This year's Power System's World Technical Conference, held Oct. 24-26 in Long Beach Calif., provided a venue for power designers to address one of the hottest topics of the day - digital power control. This topic was given a special emphasis at the conference with a dedicated session titled, "Digital Power Conversion". At this session, several speakers articulated the benefits, challenges, design architectures and product examples of digital power control. The documents that accompanied these talks are posted on Power Electronics Technology's "Spotlight on Digital Power".
   The presentation that followed by Dr. Shmuel Ben-Yaakov of Systel was entitled "Design and Applications of a Universal Power Management Mixed-Signal SoC Controller (UPMC) Platform." This device has Control, Interface and CPU sections, and provides a complete migration path from pure analog control technology to mixed signal digital control.
   Similar to methods used in high performance FPGAs in other areas of electronics, both of these talks discuss the advantages of implementing digital control functionality as dedicated hardware blocks to achieve significant performance gains over digital control implemented with DSPs. A programmable interface to these dedicated circuits enables programmability in the high-performance digital controllers based on this architecture.
   Hardware technology as well as hardware design enables the fundamental capabilities of digital power control. Besides the obvious trend of shrinking CMOS geometries, increasing the operating frequency of discrete components within the control loop is another effort that will lead to improved performance.





4. The Power Electronics has published a Systel paper from the PET06 on its website, in the page Digital Design Articles from the Power Electronics Technology Conference.
   
   "Design and Applications of Universal Power Management Mixed-Signal SoC Controller (UMPC) Platform", by Dr. Shmuel Ben-Yaakov, Systel Development & Industries.
   



5. August 2006
   In the Power Electronics magazine - covered the IDC2000 lunch, under New Product section:
   Power Controller
   Systel Development and Industries' series of power-controller ICs is based on Systel's IDC2000 (Integrated Digital Control) SoC platform. This architecture combines all the advantages of analog and DSP processor technologies with the customized attribute of an ASIC and the configuration power of a field programmable gate array, while doing away with their particular limitations. This platform comprises power-control functions such as PFC and power line communication. The smart algorithms implemented in the IDC2000 allow the diminishing of the passive component precision, further reducing the component cost of the end product. The IDC2000 was built to implement any conceivable dimmable and nondimmable electronic ballasts for any type of lamp or a combination of them using the graphical user interface design tools developed by Systel.
   
   



6. August 2006
   A Special supplement: Digital Power and Control
   Systel's IDC2000 was discussed in the article "new chips enabling digital solutions."
   
   By Richard Ruiz Jr
   Although digital power is only a small fraction of today's power electronics industry, its growth and development is expected to play a major role in the future of power conversion and power management. A number of semiconductor manufacturers are actively involved in determining what functions system makers want, what will be the added value of digital over analog, and the external demands that digital will meet more effectively than analog. Looking at this year's semiconductor company offerings of digital products, it is clear that the technology has been accepted and is being implemented into a number of designs.
   Systel Development and Industries Ltd. has introduced the second-generation IDC2000 configurable system on chip (CSoC) controller platform for power management applications based on Systel's unique digital signal processing approach. Systel's IDC architecture provides an alternative to custom ASIC solutions. The IDC2000, with on-board flash memory, is fully configured at the level of the digital blocks and their interlinking, without code programming, using design tools provided by Systel.





7. June 2006
   The leading German lighting industry magazine covers launch of the IDC2000, and chose the IDC2000 as one of five significant technical innovations of this fair. Read More





8. The leading German lighting industry magazine covers launch of the IDC2000/ June 2006   Prior to the Light & Building 2006 Fair that took place in Germany, “Highlight” magazine reported on the IDC2000 as one of the technical innovations expected at the Fair.
   In their after show report Systel's IDC2000 was chosen as one of five significant technical innovations of this fair, from amongst the 2,200 exhibitors.





9. Systel Unveils Second-Generation Digital CSoC Power Controller
   Systel Development and Industries Ltd. has introduced the second-generation IDC2000 Configurable System on Chip (CSoC) controller platform for power management applications based on Systel's unique digital signal processing approach. The IDC2000 platform includes controller devices that reach up to 22 configurable pwm outputs with switching frequency up to 6MHz, achieving a system control response of less than 1s. The pwm channels are protected pulse by pulse and configurable for independent or linked operation. Configurable digital PID algorithms control each output.
   Systel's IDC architecture provides an alternative to the custom ASIC solutions. The IDC with on-board flash memory is fully configured at the level of the digital blocks and their interlinking, without code programming, using design tools provided by Systel. This enables power engineer to develop and apply sophisticated digital control algorithms.
   The platform incorporates a 115.2 K Baud UART and optional embedded communication capabilities including amongst others: two way power line carrier communication modem, CAN module and RF transceiver control module. The IDC2000 offers solutions starting from a price of less than $3.00 and a performance of up to 2000 MIPS of equivalent processing power.
   

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