Behind The Bright Lights, LED Drivers Evolve To Meet New Requirements
By Randall Restle, Newark
high-brightness LEDs can generate usable levels of light with improved efficiency, longer lifetimes, and smaller dimensions than conventional light sources. Accurate current control is essential for an effective LED lighting solution, and a wide variety of LED driver ICs is available to help engineers optimize their designs.
Broadband Filter/ADC Driver Family Sports High Accuracy
A family of five single and dual low-pass active filter/analog-to-digital converter (ADC) driver amplifier devices from Linear Technology Corp. provides high performance and wide bandwidths.
Overvoltage Protection IC Reduces Board Space By 40%
Available in a 3- by 4- by 0.9-mm QFN-22 package, the NUS6189 promises to reduce board space by up to 40% by integrating four separate protection functions.
The DS4560 self-protected, resettable hot-plug switch promises to reduce the number of components necessary for the safe insertion and removal of systems on 12-V backplanes.
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