Lighting & Illumination

July 2016

Molex launches Transcend Alliance to promote network-connected lighting

Molex has announced that six partners have joined the new Transcend Alliance, a consortium of companies working together to expand and promote the use of network connected lighting in commercial buildings by developing and implementing new systems and protocols. New integrated lighting network solutions, su

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07/27/2016

Understanding automotive regulators

Martin Moss, Texas Instruments

What is often missed in an automotive power supply when choosing an integrated circuit is not the specification on the data sheet but how the device will operate in the final design. This is because the datasheet covers the integrated circuit performance and can miss how the device will work in a closed loop or

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07/27/2016

The TB62D786FTG has a single-wire Manchester-encoded interface

Toshiba helps downsize LED modules with single-wire input illumination LED driver

Toshiba Electronics Europe has introduced a 9-channel output LED driver IC that will save board space and reduce the size of LED modules in a variety of lighting and illumination applications. The TB62D786FTG has a single-wire Manchester-encoded interface, which is often used for wireless communication. Bu

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07/26/2016

70-9159 Series single two-piece contacts

AVX's latest locking plug contacts suit B2B apps

AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer of passive components and interconnect solutions, has added a locking plug to its low-profile 70-9159 Series single two-piece contacts for high current, coplanar PCB mating applications, which deliver the industry’s smallest profile capable of supporting a full 5A. The la

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07/25/2016

LYTSwitch-7 single-stage, non-isolated, TRIAC-dimmable, buck topology LED driver IC

Power Integrations' TRIAC-dimmable LYTSwitch-7 LED driver ICs can cut the BOM by 40%

Power Integrations, a leader in high-efficiency, high-reliability LED driver ICs, announced its LYTSwitch-7 single-stage, non-isolated, TRIAC-dimmable, buck topology LED driver IC family. Capable of delivering up to 22 watts without a heatsink in a very small SO-8 footprint, these high-efficiency devices are su

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07/22/2016

The Digital Ceiling deployment at the Quest HABC

Cree's SmartCast PoE chosen by Quest for business center

Quest, a leader in technology management offering professional, cloud, and managed service, selected SmartCast Power over Ethernet (PoE) LED lighting by Cree, integrated with a Cisco network for its new High Availability Business Center (HABC) in Roseville, California. SmartCast PoE is an intuitively simple, sc

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07/19/2016

eLumination driverless AC LED light engine

ERG Lighting introduces eLumination driverless AC LED light engines

The eLumination Series from ERG Lighting is a family of driverless AC LED light engines for architectural, display and down lighting that have a flicker index of only 0.15 – less than half of the 0.34 offered by the competition. They are U.S. made and offered in 4” and 6” round versions for downlights an

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Date:

07/06/2016