With the ‘Best Accessible Technology’ certificate, ‘BAT’ for short, EBV Elektronik is drawing attention to particularly energy-efficient products in its portfolio.

With the ‘Best Accessible Technology’ certification, EBV provides its customers with a tool that gives clear guidance with regard to energy efficiency. EBV's approach is to ensure that promoted products comply not only with the customer’s technical requirements but also, where possible, to the most advanced level of development for energy efficiency.

Products and their certification are selected on the basis of individual and critical assessment by the product specialists in technical marketing at EBV and are subject to strict criteria. For example, every product must display a minimum fixed characteristics to be certified by EBV as a 'Best Accessible Technology' product with regard to energy efficiency. The criteria are:

• New process technology to improve leakage current performance and better performance per watt, e.g. microprocessors and programmable logic in 90, 60 or 45 nm process technology
• New process technology for lower supply voltage, e.g. supply voltage below 2 V
• Improved low power modes for microcontrollers, e.g. operating from a single battery cell
• Quiescent current for analogue products: ~ below 500 µA
• Newest package technology
• Switching efficiency in DC-DC converters:
• Efficiency of switching regulators/controllers is greater than:
• Vin/Vout > 7, efficiency is > 85%
• Vin/Vout > 2  and Fsw > 2MHz, efficiency is > 90%
• Vin/Vout > 2, efficiency is > 95%
• LED driver:
• Boost efficiency is > 85%
• Buck efficiency is > 90%
• Buck-boost efficiency is > 80%
• Fulfills PowerWise Specification from National Semiconductor
• Low-noise linear-regulators < 15 µV_rms/mW
• Relation between power consumption/system frequency without load for clocked devices (e.g. logic, microcontrollers, DSPs, etc.)
• Relation between stand-by power and active power without load (amplifiers, comparators)
• Relation between power consumption, system frequency and number of logic cells for FPGAs
• Lighting: light efficiency performance per watt
• Lighting: newest LED technology

Whether or not a product has been certified by EBV as BAT-compatible can be found out by means of the characteristic logo in the Products section.