Electronic Design News

Power Software Supports ICs

Power Integrations announced that the latest version of its popular power supply design software, PI Expert Suite 9.0, now includes support for its LinkSwitch™-PL and LinkSwitch-PH LED-driver ICs and its recently introduced TinySwitch™-4 off-line switcher IC family. Version 9.0 includes an enhanced schematics-manipulation tool. It also enables designers to upload the resulting BOM from the auto-generated schematic layout to selected, leading design-fulfillment distributors.

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Two-Channel LED Drivers for CRI Lamps

Atmel® Corporation announced three new two-channel solid state lighting (SSL) LED drivers that provide accurate color control for two-color LED light engines. In addition, the LED drivers deliver the most efficient power management, with the lowest component count, for high CRI LED lamps.

Ideal for applications including general lighting, residential and commercial lighting, architectural lighting, and mood lighting, the LED drivers consist of the Atmel MSL2021, MSL2023, MSL2024; all can be...

Digital Controller for Solid State Lighting

Next week at Strategies in Light, the premier conference and exhibition for solid-state lighting (SSL), emerging fabless company, Ikon Semiconductor, will debut its digital controller Integrated Circuit (IC) technology for the dimmable LED retrofit market. The new technology is designed to meet cost and performance standards for today’s LED lighting products, while also enabling greater design simplicity for bulb manufacturers and OEMs. Central to the IC’s value is an innovative digital...

Compact Solid-State LED Dimmer

Industrial automation manufacturer Opto 22 has announced the Network LED Dimmer, a compact, solid-state, and networkable LED dimmer that uses pulse width modulation (PWM) to control LED brightness (0-100%) for 9-30 VDC constant voltage LED lighting assemblies such as lamps, bulbs, strips, ropes, and bars. Used alone or teamed with other Dimmers, the Network LED Dimmer is suitable for any application that requires variable light from LEDs. Lighting designers, facility engineers, and architects...

LED Driver for Solid-State Lighting Apps

Supertex introduced HV9973—a patented, isolated, constant current LED driver for use in high voltage solid-state lighting applications such as incandescent bulb retrofits. The IC achieves +/-3% current accuracy through patented primary side current sensing and has internal over voltage and short circuit protection. This sensing approach eliminates the need for secondary sensing components, thus reducing component count, circuit size and cost. The patented control technique also makes the...

±50 ppm Solid-state Oscillators

Integrated Device Technology, Inc., the Analog and Digital Company™ delivering essential mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, announced it was honored with Electronic Products’ Product of the Year Award for its 3LG family of ±50 ppm CrystalFree™ solid-state oscillators.

The editors of Electronic Products – a leading trade publication for electronic design engineers – evaluated thousands of products launched in 2011. The winning products were selected on the basis of innovative...

Single-Chip Solid State Drive

TAIPEI,Taiwan, May 2, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (Nasdaq:SIMO), the global leader in NAND flash controllers, today introduces its FerriSSD™ product line. FerriSSD™ is the world’s smallest single-chip Solid State Drive with standard SATA or PATA interface in BGA form factor that allows for easy integration of embedded storage into industrial and commercial devices and applications. With both commercial-grade (0℃ to 70℃) and industrial-grade (-40℃ to...

Modules for Digital Power Management

The Z16MiniZ28 Module is a Dual Inline Pin “stamp” module designed for the customer in mind, to quickly develop prototypes, proofs of concept and products for power management. The Mini-Z Module, which features the 16-bit ZNEO CPU-based Z16F2810 MCU, is designed to be pin-compatible with the Parallax BS2 Series of stamp modules and with Basic Micro’s Basic ATOM Pro 28-M module. This compatibility in the module’s design allows engineers to utilize differing vendors’ base boards which...