Lighting

Highlights

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Power

Building a Versatile LED Driver

Configurable LED drivers, whether implementing a buck, boost, or buck-boost topology, provide a versatile approach to LED design, delivering efficient operation over a wide input...
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Power

A Relatively Easy Way to Realize a Programmable LED Driver

This particular driver is well-suited for lighting-control applications that need a compact, scalable, easy to power, and highly linear power source, but be wary of the application...
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Power

Synchronous Boost Converter Powers High-Current LEDs Even at Low Input Voltages

To overcome the limitations of asynchronous dc-dc converters, designers can implement a synchronous boost LED controller to deliver the required high output current via its synchronous...
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IoT

Can CHIP Make the Seamless Smart Home Real?

Qorvo’s Cees Links discusses where home networks have been, where they are now, and where they’re going, and how Project Connected Home over IP is in the mix.
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Power

Driving LED Designs

LEDs are dominating lighting and good driver designs are key to reducing power consumption and EMI.
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Analog

An Enlightening Dimmer Switch Teardown

Older dimmer switches can’t power electronic bulbs, much less a dead short. Paul Rako tears one down to illuminate why that’s the case.
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Power Electronics Systems

Power Electronics Products of the Week (3/5-3/11)

Whether you are looking for modular power supplies or high-side switches, Power Electronics has you covered. Here are some of the latest products to optimize your systems and ...
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Power Electronics Systems

Power Electronics Products of the Week (1/22-1/28)

Whether you are looking for modular power supplies or high-side switches, Power Electronics has you covered. Here are some of the latest products to optimize your systems and ...
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Software

ZigBee Promises Another Universal Language for the Internet of Things

Everything from thermostats, light bulbs, and smartphones would be able to talk wirelessly with each other using a new software language called dotdot. Or that is what the ZigBee...
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Wireless

5 Things You Must Know About the New Bluetooth 5

Longer range, faster speed, and larger broadcast message capacity come with Bluetooth 5, which makes it an even stronger wireless competitor in the IoT space.