MELEXIS LIN RGB family automotive LED drivers for ambient lighting in automotive applications includes MLX81123, which boosts performance and reliability in a small package. As a successor to firm’s model MLX81113, the new third-generation MLX81123 features a SOIC8 and a small DFN-8 3mm x 3mm packaging. The miniaturization enables the use of light in any location of the car, whereas before there were limitations due to space constraints. Manufactured using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology, device’s miniaturization allows for an increased...

Seoul Semiconductor will participate in the annual Expo Lighting America conference and exhibit, the premier annual meeting for lighting professionals in Latin America, scheduled for February 27 – March 1, 2018 in Mexico City, Mexico. This year’s conference theme is “Light, Design and Comfort.”

Avnet and Universal Lighting Technologies announced a new agreement designating Avnet as Universal’s first OEM distributor authorized to sell the EVERLINE family of LED drivers and linear modules in the Americas. 

A diamond or the hull of a crystal ship? For the new headquarters of the Antwerp Port Authority Zaha Hadid Architects have placed an expressive structure with a facetted façade on top of a listed former fire station. Lighting integrated in the ceiling provides a creative and precise response to the absence of right angles. At the heart of this special lighting system are LED Light Engines and LED Drivers from Tridonic.

ERP Power LLC (ERP), a major provider of small, smart and connected LED drivers for the lighting industry, has signed a global distribution franchise agreement with Future Electronics, a leading provider of solid-state lighting technologies, engineering expertise and online simulation and design tools. Future Electronics is globally integrated with lighting solutions expertise in 44 countries around the world to accelerate time to market and facilitate architectural, commercial and industrial lighting fixture development.

Thomas Research Products has introduced an entirely new family of feature-rich programmable LED drivers under the SelectSync name. These cost-competitive models offer a variety of new solutions for powering intelligent lighting devices. 

LEDs in automotive front lighting enable energy savings, new light designs and applications such as matrix beam and laser high-beam. Supporting the progress in automotive lighting Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) launched high-power LED driversspecifically designed for automotive front lights. The drivers are available within the new LITIX Power Flex series and the LITIX Power series. They address flexible DC/DC driver solutions supporting LED systems of up to 50 W and even above. Application setups can vary: many medium-power LEDs with string voltages of up to 55 V or few LEDs with high currents of up to 3 A and more.

Fulham, a leading supplier of lighting components and electronics for commercial and specialty applications, will demonstrate its newest LED lighting products for OEMs, distributors, and lighting professionals at this week’s Hong Kong International Lighting Fair. Included among the Fulham products on display will be the LumoSeries LED drivers, the HotSpot Plus LED and emergency lighting drivers, and the customizable Quik Custom linear LED drivers. Fulham will be exhibiting in booth 1C-C02.

A new innovative way of DALI lighting Control, just connect to the BD5 through Cincon iDALI APP, and you can easily control. ●     Wireless control with user-friendly APP ●     BD5 meets DALI Standard IEC62386 with Bluetooth 4.0 interface. Effective range: 10 meter. ●     BD5T adds convenient programmable scene schedule function. *(The effective range may vary due to the environmental condition, e.g. walls, metal materials around BD5/BD5T)

MEAN WELL, the leading brand of the standard power supply manufacturer, will show on the topic, “MEAN WELL, Driving your intelligent life” in this year’s Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition. Many new products which are primarily exposed in the whole world will be brought to the show, including indoor application power supply (AP/LP series), super high-efficiency water-proof power supply (ELG/HLG series), circular shape power supply for bay lighting (HBG series), new generation enclosed power supply (LRS series), super-slim LED display power supply (HSP series), and etc. It is to be splendid!

You may have recently encountered “GaN,” which is replacing silicon (Si) in some key applications for power conversion. In this blog series, “How to design with GaN,” I will take a look at how gallium nitride (GaN) is different from Si and what the key considerations are when creating a power design with GaN.

Billion Electric, a pioneered leader in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of advanced LED power supply and lighting solutions, today announces to exhibit its latest outdoor LED drivers and Smart Lighting Solution at EXPO Electronika Russia and Poland LIGHT.

Billion Electric (TAIEX: 3027) announced the launch of Smart Lighting Control Management System (LCMS) and High Efficiency Class 2 Drivers to the global LED Lighting market.

ON Semiconductor, driving energy efficient innovations, announces two new series of power factor corrected (PFC) offline Ac-Dc drivers for high performance LED lighting applications. Extending the NCL3008x family of products, the NCL30085, NCL30086 and NCL30088 address single stage design implementations up to 60 watts (W) that require high power factor. The NCL30030 broadens the existing solutions which support higher power (up to 150 W) two stage topologies that require low optical ripple and wide LED forward voltage variation.

You can make a light fixture a wireless node today. It isn’t magic. The first question, however, should be: Does it make sense to make every fixture a wireless node?

RECOM is a manufacturer of a wide range of DC/DC converters, switching regulators, board-mounted power supplies and LED drivers for the global market. In May 2014, a new sales subsidiary, RECOM Power Japan K.K., was established in Tokyo, Japan.

The Zhaga Consortium has decided that it will aim to enable LED modules and drivers that are independently interchangeable. This is in addition to Zhaga’s stated aim to enable interchangeability of LED light engines.

Lighting and technology manufacturer, GlacialTech, will be exhibiting its latest energy efficient GlacialLight LED luminaries and GlacialPower LED drivers at the biennial Light+Building fair at Messe Frankfurt in Germany from 30 March to 04 April 2014. GlacialTech will be in Hall 10.1, booth #C10J in the Technical Lighting and Lamps area.

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) published white paper NEMA LSD 68 Remote Phosphor Devices Used in LED Lamps, Engines and Luminaires.

Joe DeNicholas, Product Line Manager, Lighting Power Products, Texas Instruments (TI) tackles some common issues in Multi-string LED lighting systems in this blog entry.

Confidence in LED solutions increased with extension of driver warranties when luminaires are thermally validated and use modules from Xicato and drivers from Harvard Engineering.

GE Lighting has entered a joint-development agreement with Cooledge Lighting Inc. to develop a customized GE Lightech™ LED driver as a key component in Cooledge's first full range of LED light sheet solutions for fixture companies, which debut this week at the LightFair International trade show in Philadelphia.

Atmel Corp. has launched new intelligent multistring LED drivers for the backlighting and solid state lighting markets. According to the company, their comprehensive portfolio of Atmel LED drivers offer design engineers efficiency optimizer (EO) technology, flexible dimming options, scalability across wide range of power levels, user programmability and lower bill of material (BOM). The LED drivers incorporate Atmel's patent-pending EO technology allows designers to use any DC-to-DC or AC-to-DC converter topology with isolated or non-isolated implement...