As concerns about grid security increase globally, it’s a good time to review the history, scope, and effect of North American electric system reliability standards. As the threat landscape changes, ...

At the core of every electronics system is a chip that has to meet multiple conflicting requirements such as increased functionality, best power efficiency, highest reliability, lowest design cost and ...

NOTE TO READERS: Following the public release of this report in November 2011, errors were discovered in several of the equations and numerical solutions included in Appendix C. This document includes ...