A programmable controller for LED lighting combines state machines for autonomous current control with the capability of DALI network support and flexibility in topology. The new STLUX385 digital lighting controller IC from ...
Tags: LED lighting, STMicroelectronics, SSL-Targeted Microcontroller, SIL
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
Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has launched an LED driver for LED display and illumination equipment that can illuminate 8 RGB-LEDs with a single IC. Samples are available now and mass production is scheduled for March 2013. ...
Tags: Toshiba, LED Driver, LED Display
Eight IC product types will grow more than the market this year, says IC Insights, eleven product types will grow less than the market and ten product types will decline. Top of the pops are tablet MPUs and cellphone application MPUs ...
Photovoltaic inverter design is now seen as the crucial element in solar power development, writes James Turner, and he discusses some of the challenges that can shape PV inverter design. Over the last few years the photovoltaic (PV) ...
Digi-Key has signed two new supplier franchises military chip specialist Holt Integrated Circuits and cognitive memory supplier, CogniMem. CogniMem has developed a neural network architecture to resemble the synapses of the human ...
Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers (as well as III-V epiwafers through its Picogiga International division), estimates that its engineered substrates (which are used in ...
Tags: Soitec, Engineered Substrates, Smart Phones, Tablets
Analog Devices has expanded its EngineerZone online technical support community to support its full line of signal processing devices. The chip supplier has set-up the online community to help its customers to engage online with ADI ...
Tags: ADI, Consumer Electronics
Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical components enabling high-speed end-to-end information streaming over optical fiber and wireless networks) says that in its lawsuit against defendants M/A-COM ...
Following six years of R&D, Raytheon has opened a silicon carbide fab in Glenrothes Scotland which will offer foundry services as well as its own line of high-temperature ICs. Its SiC process has been developed on-site, with Government ...
Tags: Raytheon, silicon carbide fab, IC
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
Cree continues its string of positive financial reports with a primary focus on the LED sector, while more-broadly focused Hubbell, Cirrus Logic, and Rambus all reported growth in the SSL sector. LED-manufacturer Cree reports 10% ...
Tags: LED financial, LED sector, LED, lighting
Analogue chip supplier ams has signed Mouser Electronics as a global distributor. The Austria-based manufacturer's product range includes sensors, sensor interfaces, power management ICs and wireless ICs for the consumer, industrial, ...
Tags: chip, Mouser Electronics, wireless ICs
Taiwan-based LED driver IC suppliers Richtek Technology, Macroblock and On-Bright Electronics are expected to see shipments boom in 2013 on anticipated growth in LED demand for backlight and lighting applications, according to industry ...
Tags: LED driver, IC suppliers, 2013
NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, ...
Tags: NeoPhotonics, semiconductor, semiconductor optical components