Power Integrations announced a new long-lifetime LED-driver reference design. DER-340 describes a wide-range (90 VAC to 308 VAC), high-power-factor LED-driver power supply that is suitable for ...

To help meet customer demand and make this digital equipment thinner, some manufacturers have turned to LLC resonant half-bridge converters to drive the light emitting diode (LED) backlighting of ...

The driving force behind the switch from incandescent lighting to LED technology is to gain power efficiency and longer life. However, the cost of LED assemblies is much higher than incandescent and ...

Typical requirements for industrial LEDs. Designing an LED gate driver using an industrial digital input chip. Ruggedness characteristics of the new gate driver. Industrial control systems universally ...

LED-based bulbs that replace their incandescent counterparts require a significant amount of engineering (Fig. 1). In the 60 W range the LED driver board can take up about 15% of the overall cost of ...

In this article, we continue our discussion on the importance of grounding when installing LED lighting equipment. Part 1 of this three-part series focuses on the ground plane of the printed circuit ...

Date Announced: 18 Nov 2009 Riverside, CA -- Bourns, Inc., a leading manufacturer and supplier of electronic components, today announced that the company has introduced the availability of WEBENCH® ...

China-based power management IC (PMIC) makers are keen on developing LED driver ICs optimizing mature technology. Chinese LCD driver IC suppliers have caught up with international players ...

Design is no longer an afterthought. In today's most successful organizations, design drives the thinking that decides what gets built, how it's delivered and why users would care. Design does more ...