If all goes according to schedule, the new version (2.1) of five-year-old Unified Power Format (UPF) standard will be approved by the IEEE early next year. This is good news, because in the five years ...

Controlling power has its costs. The added power elements and their interactions make verification of low-power designs much more difficult and the engineer’s job overwhelmingly complex and tedious.

If we know what isn’t ‘unhealthy’, then what is ‘healthy’? In recent years, research has not viewed UPF favourably. Examples include studies linking UPF consumption to poor health outcomes such as a ...