Digital power system management

the past, power system management was limited to telephone central office battery plants or very large server systems. With the wide adoption of the intermediate bus power system architecture (IBA), every circuit board now has its own power system. This coupled with a growing need for flexibility and system availability has many considering power system management at the board level. This paper reviews the basics of managing local area power systems with a digital interface. The key decisions are reviewed and the advantages and disadvantages are discussed