Lighting & Illumination

April 2013
Luso Electronics to carry high-efficiency LED drivers from Shinelight
Luso Electronics has added to its distribution portfolio with new LED driver power supply modules from Shinelight Technology aimed at various lighting applications. The Shinelight range of LED driver
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Date:
04/30/2013

Texas Instruments announced several design updates to TI E2ETM Community, its popular engineer-to-engineer online design community that now connects more than 120,000 engineers. TI has expanded
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Date:
04/30/2013
Boost regulator supports wide range of display sizes in mobile end-products
ams, a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs for consumer, communications, industrial, medical, and automotive applications, released the AS1345, a miniature step-up DC-DC
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Date:
04/30/2013
Ido Sarig, Wind River's vice president of product marketing, demonstrates
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Date:
04/29/2013
Board-level contact system provides maximum wire stability & retention
AVX, a leading manufacturer of passive components and interconnect solutions, has introduced a unique new surface-mount, single-poke, dual-beam boxed contact system designed to enable simple, reliable,
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Date:
04/29/2013
Alec Melnick, ROHM's Sr. Product Marketing Manager, describes the company's
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Date:
04/26/2013
Open-frame 375W power supply targets industrial, entertainment, and outdoor lighting
Luso Electronics Distribution announced availability of the XL375LED constant current 375W AC-DC power supply family from N2Power. The new power supplies are designed to drive strings of LEDs in high-power
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Date:
04/26/2013
Atmel, a leader in microcontroller (MCU) and touch technology solutions, today announced it has further simplified the MCU design process with the launch of its integrated development tools platform,
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Date:
04/26/2013
Following its entry into the LED retrofit market in 2012 with a line of dual-stage LED drivers, Cirrus Logic has introduced its first family of single-stage LED drivers, the CS1615/16, targeting the
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Date:
04/23/2013
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has released a new technical specification for solar-powered light-emitting diode (LED) lighting devices, such as solar lanterns. The new specification
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Date:
04/19/2013
Tunable CRI 90 white LED claims to be the most compact and efficient
LED Engin, a leader in high- lumen density LED products, released LuxiTune, presented as the first intelligent, compact, single emitter light engine that delivers directional light with halogen-style
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Date:
04/18/2013
Considering that almost 60 percent of total electric energy produced worldwide is used to run motors of every size, shape and efficiency, the adoption of variable speed drives can save as much as 70 percent of energy costs by controlling the speed of the load. New energy efficiency standards for compressors an
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Date:
04/15/2013
Many high power systems require the use of a hot-swap device to safely control of the inrush currents at powerup and provide fault protection. These circuits are commonly found in systems such as servers, network switches, redundant-array-of-independent-disk (RAID) storage, and other forms of communications infrastru
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Date:
04/15/2013
Samsung mid-power LED package claims highest light efficacy
Samsung Electronics has developed a new lineup of middle power LED packages with the industry's highest efficacy level. It is ideal for use in a wide variety of LED lighting applications including
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Date:
04/11/2013
Integrated LED arrays deliver over 10,000 lumens
Cree extends the XLamp® CXA family of integrated LED arrays with the higher light output CXA2540 and CXA3050 LEDs. Optimized to simplify designs and lower system cost, the new CXA LEDs deliver 5,000
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Date:
04/10/2013
GaN-on-silicon LEDs presented as first commerically available
Plessey announced samples of its Gallium Nitride (GaN) on silicon LED products (p/n PLW111010) are available today. These entry-level products are believed to be the first LEDs manufactured on 6-inch
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04/08/2013
LED driver IC offers low cost, flexible solution for LED lamps up to 20 W

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CamSemi has released a high-performance LED driver IC that offers manufacturers greater design flexibility in their drive to develop lower cost, more energy-efficient A-series, GU10 and other space-constrained
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Date:
04/08/2013
Sales of specialty incandescent bulbs decline despite exemption from efficiency standards
Editor's note: this topic was also part of this month's viewpoint column. Most specialty light bulb
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Date:
04/05/2013
Mark Smith of Microsemi demonstrates the performance aspects of their
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Date:
04/04/2013
LLC transformer offers up to 99% efficiency and 50% real-estate savings
Providing up to 99% efficiency with low power loss, the latest LLC transformer from Precision combines two discrete components - a resonant inductor and transformer - into a single package reducing
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Date:
04/04/2013
Nominations now open for first-round Global LEAP Outstanding Off-Grid Product Awards nominations
Nominations are now open for the first round of the Global LEAP Outstanding Off-Grid Product Awards. The Global Lighting and Energy Access Partnership (Global LEAP) is an initiative under the Clean
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Date:
04/03/2013
RGBW LED emitters deliver 30% more output
LED Engin, a leader in high lumen density LED products, announces the LZ4 flat lens family of compact, 4-die RGBW emitters for wash lamps and follow spots used in stage lighting applications. Two
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Date:
04/02/2013
LITETRONICS® International, a leading global manufacturer of innovative, energy-efficient long-life lighting products, announced that the Chicago Children's Museum at Navy Pier has purchased several
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Date:
04/01/2013
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