SAN FRANCISCO — National Semiconductor Corp. introduced on Monday (Feb. 11) half a dozen voltage-regulator devices designed to power white LEDs used as backlights for color displays on new-generation ...

Scarcely a lighting application exists that designers have not considered converting to solid-state lighting, especially as LEDs by leaps and bounds improve both the quantity and the quality of their ...

Used in industrial, architectural, and automotive applications, as well as for warning lamps and emergency lights, high-brightness power LEDs (HBLEDs) are becoming more and more popular, due in part ...

Allegro MicroSystems' A6211 switching buck regulator LED driver provides constant-current output to drive high-power LEDs. With a wide input supply voltage from 6 V to 48 V, the device integrates a ...

LED output is a function of the current through it. So to drive the device, it would seem simple enough to set the LED current with a series power resistor. But there’s a problem with this idea. First ...

Experience low power, high security, and reliable performance with PolarFire® Core & SoC FPGAs. A maker recently engineered ...