Datacenter Power Management in Smart Grids overviews recent work on managing and minimizing the cost of data centers in the context of smart grids. It starts by reviewing the operation of smart grids and analyzing how power is consumed in datacenters. Then, it presents various cost minimization approaches using techniques from the fields of optimization, algorithmics, and feedback control. In particular, it focuses on approaches that utilize time-of-use pricing and demand response features to cut the datacenter electricity cost. In a cloud computing environment, companies or individuals...

Design, Automation, and Test for Low-Power and Reliable Flexible Electronics provides an in-depth overview of flexible electronics from their applications, manufacturing processes, device characteristics, to circuit and system design solutions. With rapid advances in flexible semiconducting materials, the performance of TFT circuits has been improving significantly and concerns about their ambient stability have been alleviated to a great extent over the past few years. After a brief introduction to flexible electronics, the book highlights its key difference from silicon electronics, and the...