Call for Papers Details and Submission Guidelines
Power Conversion and Power Management Track Call for Papers DPE ‘07
The first annual Digital Power Europe forum will be synergistic with the highly successful Digital Power Forum in North America. Join us to hear about the latest components, new design techniques and design tools that are enabling the use of digital power management and digital power conversion technologies in your next design. Delegates will also see demonstrations and application examples for practical digital power designs in the exhibition area.
Digital Power Europe ’07 will be the premier “digital power event” in Europe. Don’t miss this chance to showcase your latest work in digital power, and to see the most recent development efforts of other leading engineers in this important field.
Digital power electronics is fulfilling the promise of improvements in performance and reduction in cost compared with today’s primarily analogue techniques. The replacement of analogue control and power management with advanced digital techniques can introduce additional complexity to the design process, however. To fully appreciate how digital can improve existing architectures (or create new ones), it is necessary for designers to employ new power system control models. Significant challenges and opportunities are ahead for companies who have entered, or want to enter, this market.
The perceived complexity of “going digital” in comparison to using similar bandwidth analogue components is a hurdle that companies still have to address. Join us at Digital Power Europe to hear about and discuss the unique challenges this region, along with the new components, design techniques and design tools that are enabling the use of digital power conversion and digital power management technologies in your next design.
Submissions are being sought for the following topics: Controllers and control loops, communications, fault tolerance, stability analysis, converter efficiency, design tools, topologies, new architectures, system partitioning between analogue and digital, power quality and electromagnetic compatibility, and so on.
Types of Presentations:
- Case Studies/Industry Examples: Outstanding examples of recent applications of digital power management or control in power systems, including developmental tests, as well as full commercial systems.
- Design Techniques and Tools: Detailed and specific discussions of how digital power management and digital power conversion systems are designed, with emphasis on practical, real-world examples of current commercial solutions, including integration issues involved with combining digital power control on a converter level with digital power management on a system level.
- Technology Developments: Projections and forecasts for changes in core power electronic technologies, including new architectures, new designs/implementations, new applications, and new methods for implementing solutions.
Submission Guidelines:
Please note that proposals and submissions will be accepted only electronically by e-mail. Send your proposal as an e-mail attachment to Linnea Brush, linnea@darnell.com.
The Proposal: Each proposal should be no more than 1,000 words and include:
- Tentative paper title
- Abstract of proposed presentation (one paragraph is sufficient)
- Presenter’s profile (see below)
- Presentation format (see below)
Presentation Format Options:
- Individual paper from industry
- Collaborative industry/academic paper
- Lead a panel discussion
Presenter’s Profile:
- Name, job title, affiliation(s)
- Brief biography for speaker introduction (50 words)
- Contact information (e-mail, phone, website)
Deadline for Proposals: 20 July 2007
Notification and Acceptance Requirements:
Notification of acceptance will be announced on or before 27 July 2007
Acceptance will not be complete until at least one of the authors has registered to attend the conference and present the paper.
Final Paper Submission:
The formal paper will be included in the proceedings and should consist of the following:
- Maximum of six pages in a two-column format OR
- Maximum of 12 pages of PowerPoint slides (2 slides per page)
Deadline for Final Submissions: 5 October 2007