Lighting & Illumination

    October 2025
    A Bidirectional Power Solution for 48V Bus Conversions

    Frederik Dostal, Subject Matter Expert for Power Management, Analog Devices

    ­  The 48V intermediate bus is rapidly growing in popularity. The automotive market is moving quickly towards adopting it, data centres use it widely, the industrial market has it as standard and it is also extensively used in automated testing. 48V is seen as the optimal voltage level to sit between
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    Date:
    10/24/2025
    Melexis Rewrites the Rules of Automotive LED Design with a Code-Free LIN LED Driver

    Melexis Rewrites the Rules of Automotive LED Design with a Code-Free LIN LED Driver

    ­Melexis unveils the MLX80124, a highly configurable, code-free LIN LED driver. With its pre-defined, proven functionality and an intuitive graphical user interface, it is designed to radically simplify the development of dynamic RGB-LED automotive ambient lighting applications for engineers of all backgrounds.   In automotiv
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    Date:
    10/23/2025
    New Tools Streamline Power System Design Process

    ADI Power Studio is a family of products with advanced modelling, component recommendations and efficiency analysis with simulation.

    In addition, ADI is introducing early versions of two new web-based tools with a modernised user experience under the Power Studio umbrella: ADI Power Studio Planner and ADI Power Studio Designer. These new tools, together with the full ADI Power Studio portfolio, including LTspice, SIMPLIS, LTpowerCAD, LTpowe
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    Date:
    10/22/2025
    A Deep Dive into High-Efficient LED Drivers for Low-Profile Display Applications

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    Figure 1: Conventional LED boost architecture simplified circuit diagram

    ­Laptop battery drain has a significant impact on the battery run-time of the laptop system. In this article, we explore the efficiency and performance of the LED driver and introduce a novel, 2-stage architecture that consists of a synchronous boost followed by a charge pump multiplier. We compare the 2-stage ar
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    Date:
    10/01/2025

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