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    Advanced Metering Requirements Drive Higher Levels of IC Integration

    Our parents’ electricity meter provided kWh readings, could only be read with human eyes, and required a machine shop to build. Today’s energy meters provide a laundry list of measurements, can be read from the comfort of your office chair, and require a wave soldering machine to manufacture. The increased complexity in delivering a meter with all of these advanced functions at a lower cost has driven semiconductor companies to pack more features into one integrated circuit device.


    On the Way to the Ideal Meter—Using an Innovation Process to Achieve Results

    The greatest challenge of innovation for most companies is not a lack of ideas, but the quality of ideas, which leads to acceptance. In theory, quality ideas can come from anyone in an organization, but is that really your experience?

    A process can increase the rate of ideas that deliver the required return on a company’s investment of money, time, and people. Can a process truly cultivate creative and useful ideas across a wider spectrum of employees?