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   We are pleased to welcome five new member companies this quarter. We hope your company is a member. To learn about the benefits of membership, please visit our web site www.psma.com.
  
 
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Aavid
Norm Soucy
70 Commercial Street
Concord, NH 03303
E-mail: soucyn@aavid.com
Web site: www.aavid.com



Aavid has been successfully delivering engineering excellence since its inception in 1964 when it was founded as Aavid Engineering. For nearly 50 years, Aavid has been the world leader in thermal management solutions and the partner of choice for electronics companies focused on introducing next generation products to market faster, with greater reliability, and increased functionality.

Aavid provides the industry’s broadest product offering, ranging from the smallest board level cooling solution to several thousand kilowatt industrial applications. Aavid's products are used in Personal Computing systems such as desktops, laptops, printers, and video game consoles in addition to Non-PC products including servers, network devices, instrumentation, transportation, and other consumer electronics.

Aavid supports product development cycles with dedicated sales engineering resources and factory locations that deliver on time, anywhere in the world. Aavid delivers innovative, quality products to market cost effectively using global resources and a broad portfolio of manufacturing processes and capabilities. It is their policy to supply products which meet or exceeds customer requirements for quality, delivery, performance, and value. ISO Certifications in North America, Europe, Asia, and India.

Aavid products

Aavid is unique by offering state-of-the-art engineering and design services to customers who value collaboration in solving difficult and complex design management problems. These design services may be offered as part of a product solution or through specialized engineering and design centers throughout the world. Aavid Design partners closely with its customers early in the design phase of product development in order to assist with modeling and simulation and to develop innovative product solutions. By employing recognized, market-leading design & engineering expertise, coupled with investment in the latest technological design tools and backed up by its own test laboratories, Aavid Design is able to develop, test and verify its own designs for its customers.


 


Chuck Mullett - Consultant

732 Montclair Dr.
Santa Paula, CA 93060
E-mail: mullett@ieee.org

 


Chuck has been designing power supplies and power solutions for over 50 years. He recently retired from his position at ON Semiconductor, but plans to stay active in the industry. He received a Distinguished Service Award from the IEEE for founding the Los Angeles chapter of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. In 2005, he was awarded Application Engineer of the Year at ON Semiconductor. He has also served as President and Chairman of the Power Sources Manufacturers Association and Chairman of the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC). Currently Chuck is co-chair of the PSMA Nanotechnology Committee and serves on the PSMA Advisory Council. He is Special Projects Chair for APEC 2014.

 


LTEC Corporation
Yuji Kakizaki
4-42-8 Higashiarioka
Itami City
Hyogo 664-0845
Japan
E-mail:kakizaki.yuji@ltec.biz
Web site: www.ltecusa.com



LTEC is the first and largest circuits, systems, and intellectual property analysis firm in Japan, with local offices in North America and the Asia-Pacific regions. With more than 30 years in the industry, over 110 highly trained and experienced engineers and extensive investments in the latest equipment and technologies, LTEC is a trusted partner for a number of brand names around the globe.

As the first and largest circuits, systems, and intellectual property analysis firm in Japan, their strategic location allows direct access to patent databases often only available in their original language (not computer translated).

Typically, LTEC generates teardown reports of new products expected to have broad customer appeal. These copyrighted reports contain technical analysis of selected electronic systems on the market. LTEC also produces private, confidential reports, for example, in-depth reports on display panels.

In the world of high technology, innovation is the lifeblood of corporations. When dealing with intellectual property, LTEC Corporation’s most important guiding principles are ethics, integrity, and confidentiality. These principles are never compromised by profit motive or any other consideration. LTEC only uses publicly available components and systems and related information to perform its analyses.



 


STMicroelectronics

Thomas Hopkins
1375 E Woodfield Rd., Suite 400
Schaumburg, IL 60173
E-mail: thomas.hopkins@st.com
Web site: www.st.com



STMicroelectronics is one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies with net revenues of $8.49 billion in 2012. Offering one of the industry’s broadest product portfolios, ST serves customers across the spectrum of electronics applications with innovative semiconductor solutions by leveraging its vast array of technologies, design expertise and combination of intellectual property portfolio, strategic partnerships and manufacturing strength.

ST focuses its product strategy on sense and power technologies, automotive products, and embedded-processing solutions. ST products are found everywhere microelectronics make a positive and innovative contribution to people's lives.

STMicroelectronics

STMicroelectronics was created in 1987 by the merger of two long-established semiconductor companies, SGS Microelectronics of Italy and Thomson Semiconductors of France, and has been publicly traded since 1994. The group has approximately 48,000 employees, 12 main manufacturing sites, advanced research and development centers in 10 countries, and sales offices all around the world.

STMicroelectronics was one of the first global industrial companies to recognize the importance of environmental responsibility and, over the past 15 years, the Company’s sites have received more than 100 awards for excellence in all areas of Sustainability, from quality and product responsibility to corporate governance, social issues, employee health and safety, and environmental protection. Our approach to sustainability is set out in ST’s Principles for Sustainable Excellence, while our performance is reported in detail in our annual Sustainability Reports.


 


ZES Zimmer

Robert Emerson
4808 Santa Monica Avenue
San Diego, CA 92107
E-mail: emersonr7@yahoo.com
Web site: www.zes.com



Precision in Power' is the guideline of ZES ZIMMER Electronic Systems GmbH, a German high-tech company that specializes in developing and manufacturing of precision instruments and systems for measuring of electrical power, energy, harmonics, flicker and power quality.

ZES ZIMMER Electronic Systems was founded in 1980 by Mr. Georg Zimmer, who is the owner, the president and the CEO of the company.

ZES ZIMMER is recognized in their field as one of the worldwide technological leaders due to their very high quality standards and the unmatched innovation drive of our high professional R&D engineering team. By acquiring one of their power analyzers, ZES ZIMMER customers can be sure to possess a high end instrument capable to measure the electrical power most accurately, also at very low cost, in a wide frequency range, in all kind of signal forms: sinusoidal, distorted or even pulse width modulated as utilized in frequency inverters for motor drives. Their power analyzers offer advanced features, along with a user friendly interface and reliable premium hardware developed and manufactured in Germany.

 


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