Uncertainty hangs over the market for power devices made with the wide-bandgap semiconductor silicon carbide (SiC), due to a lack of clarity over whether and when electric vehicles will adopt them, according to the latest study on the SiC ...
Tags: Electric Vehicle, Electronics, Power Devices
Following its entry into the LED retrofit market in 2012 with a line of dual-stage LED drivers, Cirrus Logic, Inc. has introduced its first family of single-stage LED drivers, the CS1615/16, targeting the incandescent lamp replacement ...
Tags: LED driver, LED, Lighting
Phihong USA, the global leader in power adapter technology and a leading supplier of power solutions for OEM lighting technologies, has developed a new, low-cost, fixed-prong, wall-plug adapter style LED driver capable of driving small ...
Tags: LED Driver, Lighting
ON Semiconductor will showcase its latest power efficient product advances at APEC 2013, March 17 - 21, 2013, in Long Beach, California. The new devices are designed for boosting performance and simplifying the design of offline power ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Semiconductor
An LED lighting driver chip with in-built 0-10V dimming designed by iWatt does not require a microprocessor to control the dimming function. "We believe this is the first product from anyone with 0-10V dimming without a separate ...
Tags: Novel Isolation, LED Light, Lighting
Ikon Semiconductor and Texas Instruments introduced new SSL driver ICs designed specifically for retrofit lamp applications at the Strategies in Light conference. Although socket saturation will come in LED-based retrofit lamps as we ...
Tags: LED Lamp Driver, LED Lamp, LED
At the SIL conference, Atmel announced a driver IC family designed specifically for high-CRI lamps and luminaires that use a mix of phosphor-converted white LEDs and red or amber LEDs that combined deliver good light quality and high ...
Tags: Atmel, LED Driver ICs, High-CRI Color-Mix SSL Applications
Company launches simpler, smaller and less costly IC solution for dimmable LED retrofits Next week at Strategies in Light, the premier conference and exhibition for solid-state lighting (SSL), emerging fabless company, Ikon Semiconductor, ...
Tags: Lighting, LED, LED lighting
Fairchild Semiconductor, will demonstrate LED driver applications, including the highly integrated PFC and PWM controllers, during Strategies in Light 2013, February 12-14, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif., ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED lighting solutions, LED
Dublin-based fab-less chip company Ikon Semiconductor has jumped into the competitive LED light bulb market with its first product: a dimmable single-stage ac-dc converter. Like iWatt's new chip for non-dimmable bulbs (see page??), Ikon ...
Tags: fab-less chip company, Ikon Semiconductor, LED light bulb market
Texas Instruments has off-line, phase-dimmable, constant-current lighting controllers which can be retrofitted to a range of LED bulb types, including E14, GU10, A19, PAR20/30/38, MR16 and AR111. The TPS92075 is available in a 6-pin ...
Tags: lighting controllers, LED bulb types, LED
iWatt has taken a step into the non-dimmable power factor corrected LED bulb market with its first ac-dc product to feature an npn power switch. "This is new for us: non-dimmable plus PFC. Dimmable bill-of-materials is around $2. This is ...
Tags: iWatt, LED bulb, LED lighting
A non-dimmable, single-stage architecture seeks to minimize the bill of materials for LED A-lamps, thereby opening the market to greater SSL adoption. Power IC specialist iWatt has introduced a single-stage LED driver IC that is ...
Tags: LED A-lamps, SSL adoption, lighting
The market for semiconductors used in power supplies is forecast to grow by 6.5% in 2013, following a largely flat market for power supplies in 2012, says market analyst IMS Research. Strongest growth is predicted for MPU/MCU/DSP/DSC ...
Texas Instruments Inc.introduced a new LED controller with constant power regulation. The LM3447 AC/DC LED driver includes a dimmer detect,phase decoder and adjustable hold current circuits to provide smooth and flicker-free dimming ...