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May 19, 2011
ERG LIGHTING Demonstrates New Highly Efficient LED Drivers at Lightfair 2011
ERG Lighting is featuring its new eDriver family of constant voltage and constant current LED drivers for architectural, commercial and industrial applications at LightFair International 2011 in Booth 3601.
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May 20, 2011
Philips Xitanium Programmable LED Driver Can be Reprogrammed for Future Tasks and Developments
Philips Lighting announces the newly developed Xitanium Programmable LED driver for all outdoor LED lighting applications. This driver offers a unique level of flexibility, with a large number of features which can be customized for an optimal solution in each and every luminaire design. The highly reliable technology will set new global standards for outdoor LED lighting solutions.
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May 25, 2011
Aimtec Introduces New DC/DC Step Up LED Driver Series
The proliferation of LED applications continues to generate new specifications for the corresponding LED drivers. Aimtec’s AMLB-Z is its new line of step up DC/DC LED drivers in a 2x1 package that incorporate all the functionality and specifications required by the most demanding luminary applications.
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May 27, 2011
Renesas Electronics Announces New Microcontrollers that Provide Ultimate LED Lighting Functionality
Renesas Electronics, a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of five 16-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), the RL78/I1A family, that implement in a single chip the LED control, power supply control, and communication functions required in LED lighting fixtures. The new MCUs adopt the Renesas Electronics RL78 CPU, which achieves both high computational performance and ultra low power consumption, and include from 32 to 64 kilobytes (KB) of flash memory in 20 to 38-pin package versions. These devices achieve 20 percent reduced power consumption during normal operation over the Renesas Electronics' existing 78K0/Ix2 products.
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Jun 07, 2011
National Semiconductor’s High-Brightness LED Driver Simplifies Area-Lighting Design
National Semiconductor Corp. today introduced the LM3466, a highly integrated linear LED driver that simplifies the design of high power, wide area lighting fixtures such as streetlights. The LM3466, with just a few passive components, provides a complete system that drives each LED string from any off-the-shelf AC/DC constant-current power supply.
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Jun 14, 2011
Micrel - High Current Density and High Accuracy Linear WLED Drivers
San Jose, Calif., June. 13, 2011 - Micrel Inc., (Nasdaq:MCRL), an industry leader in analog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, today unveiled a pair of new linear WLED Drivers to further expand its lighting portfolio of products. The MIC4801/MIC4802 are single channel, constant-current sink LED drivers designed for architectural, landscape, and general LED lighting products. The MIC4801/MIC4802 are currently available in volume quantities with pricing starting at $0.58 and $0.62 respectively for 1Ku quantities. Samples can be ordered on line at: www.micrel.com/ProductList.do.
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Jun 14, 2011
Exclara Launches High-Voltage LED Driver Solution
Santa Clara, CA – June 9, 2011 – Exclara, Inc., a leader in advanced LED driver ICs and modules, today announced a breakthrough in solid-state lighting (SSL) with the launch of the Exclara HVX family that enables the lowest cost, smallest size LED driver solutions while improving efficiency, power factor and quality. Using Exclara‘s patented high-voltage driver technology, the HVX family makes high-voltage LED driver economically and physically effective to use in a commercially available product, paving the way for mass-market, ̳sub-$10‘ LED lights.
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Jun 17, 2011
iDrive® Quad: Feature-rich 4 Channel LED Driver
Integrated System Technologies (IST) has recently launched the iDrive® Quad, a 120W, 4 channel LED driver based on its patented advanced DSP technology.
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Jun 29, 2011
Atmel Launches Power-Efficient Multi-String LED Drivers
Atmel Corporation, a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced a new family of intelligent multi-string LED drivers for the backlighting and solid state lighting markets. The comprehensive portfolio of Atmel LED drivers offer design engineers industry-proven efficiency optimizer (EO) technology, flexible dimming options, scalability across wide range of power levels, user programmability and lower bill of material (BOM). These features are ideal for rapidly growing LED applications in direct and edge-lit LCD TVs, PC monitors, industrial, military and avionics displays, as well as general illumination in the commercial, residential, industrial and infrastructure market segments.
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Jul 13, 2011
Dimmable 10 Watt, AC-DC LED Drivers MeetHarsh Requirements, Offer Cold-Starting, Universal100-308VAC Input
Bias Power’s new 10 watt BPOXLD10 LED drivers offer 350mA constant current operation with 1% regulation over the entire input voltage range of 100-308VAC, 50/60Hz. LED string voltages up to 30VDC at 350mA or 14VDC at 700mA are supported. The drivers are dimmable and adjust output current based on either 0-10 VDC reference or ELV/Triac tracking. A constant-voltage version handles LED string voltages up to 12VDC. Either is compatible with digital control circuitry.
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Jul 19, 2011
ZMDI Introduces 98% Energy Efficient LED Driver IC for Retrofit LED Lamps
ZMD AG, a global supplier of energy-efficient analog and mixed-signal solutions for automotive, industrial, and medical applications, has announced availability of the ZLED7320, a new member of its high current ZLED7x20 family of 40V LED-Driver-ICs. The ZLED7320, which operates at up to 98% efficiency and is available in a small-footprint DFN-5 package, is designed to help manufacturer’s cost-effectively address the growing high-brightness (HB) LED lighting market.
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Jul 20, 2011
Renesas Electronics Announces LED Driver IC Design Support Tool to Simplify Design of LED Lamp Control Circuits
Renesas Electronics, a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of the R2A20134EVB design support tool for the R2A20134. It comes mounted with the R2A20134, a high-efficiency LED driver IC for applications such as LED lamps, and is intended to simplify the design of complex LED control circuits. Six product versions are available to match a variety of circuit configurations used by customers.
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Jul 21, 2011
Upgraded LINEARdrive Gives Increased Design Freedom and Future Proofing for the Future
eldoLED's LINEARdrive 720D - the number one choice for full-colour LED applications in architectural, façade, entertainment and stage lighting - has been upgraded to support 5V, 12V, 24V and 48V LED strips. The LED strips can even operate concurrently, giving designers increased freedom and future proofing for the installation. The LINEARdrive, which dims down to as low as 0.1%, can be used with all leading protocols (DALI, DMX, DMX/RDM, 0-10V). A wealth of configurations settings is set over the user-friendly user interface.
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Jul 27, 2011
LUXdrive Announces the Release of the Dimmable 2,100 mA Constant Current A009 BuckBlock LED Driver
LUXdrive is pleased to announce the full release of the A009 BuckBlock LED driver, which is a high output, constant current power module ideal for driving all types of high-brightness, high-power LEDs and is available in 1.0Amp, 1.4Amp and 2.1Amp versions. With a small footprint (2.0” x 1.2”) and extremely low profile (only 0.38”), the A009 is the smallest high current LED driver available.
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Jul 29, 2011
MEAN WELL Further Extends Higher Wattage LED Power Supplies with Its LPF-90(D) Series
After the launch of LPF-40(D)/60(D) series, MEAN WELL further extend higher wattage of 90W LED power supplies - LPF-90(D) series, in order to fulfill the rapid growth of dimming operation in the LED lighting market. Built-in active PFC function, LPF-90 series are primary models with complete basic functions; and for LPF-90D series, they equip with additional “three-in-one dimming function” which offer system designers great flexibility for designing lighting fixtures by using 1~10VDC, PWM signal, or changing resistance to achieve brightness reduction and energy saving purpose.
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Jul 20, 2010
LED Power Supply Has 4 Outputs with 650 mA and Supports Protection Class IP67
To benefit from energy savings and long life a growing number of indoor and street lights, message displays, traffic lights, warning lights and traffic signs use light emitting diodes.
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Aug 10, 2011
LUXdrive™ Announces Its Smallest High Current Boost Driver - the A011 FlexBlock™ LED Driver
LUXdrive is pleased to announce a further addition to its line of high power, constant current drivers with the full release of the A011 FlexBlock™ LED driver.
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Aug 12, 2011
MEAN WELL Extends Metal Case LED Power Supply Series to Higher Power with its 320W Models
After launching the new generation of high efficiency metal case LED power supplies at lower wattage range ~ HLG-80H (80W)/ HLG-100(H)/ 100W, HLG-120 (H)/120W, HLG-150(H)/150W, HLG-185(H)/185W, and HLG-240(H)/240W series, MEAN WELL continuously introduced the 320W models~HLG-320H series, to fulfill the demands of high wattage LED lighting applications.
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Aug 24, 2011
Solomon Systech Launches Offline LED driver ICs SSD1072/1073
Solomon Systech Limited (“Solomon Systech”) today announces the launch of two new members to the LED lighting family of its Green Power business unit - SSD1072/1073. The new SSD1072/1073 constant current driver ICs provide a higher power factor and high system efficiency solution for offline LED lighting applications.
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Sep 21, 2011
Power Integrations’ New HiperLCS™ High-Frequency LLC Converter IC Family Maximizes Power Supply Efficiency, Minimizes Footprint
Power Integrations (Nasdaq: POWI), the leader in high-voltage integrated circuits for energy-efficient power conversion, today introduced HiperLCS, a family of high-voltage LLC power supply ICs that incorporate the controller, high- and low-side drivers, and both MOSFETs into a single low-cost package. Highly integrated HiperLCS ICs offer the flexibility to optimize designs either for high efficiency – with a maximum efficiency of better than 97% – or for size, by leveraging high-frequency operation (up to 750 kHz) to minimize transformer size and output capacitor footprint.
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