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Cree luminaires interface directly with EcoSystem lighting controller

While LED lighting is justifiably touted as being power miserly, it’s really how well they integrate into an intelligent lighting system that allows them a fast ROI/payback time, especially in commercial lighting installations. Cree, although perhaps best known as a LED component manufacturer, also is in the lighting fixture business, and now offers a version of its CR series... More

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VCs place their bets on advanced materials in power electronics

EDN doesn’t usually pay that much attention to what the financial backing is behind new companies – we generally leave that to our sister publication EETimes. However, Lux Research recently pointed out there’s a lot of the venture capital going into non-silicon power component start-ups – to the tune of over $200M. According to the report from Lux, “ Beyond... More

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Next week’s LightFair (aka LEDFair) promises newest in solid-state lighting

Next week is the lighting industry’s pre-eminent trade show, LightFair , which to be as accurate as possible should change its name to LEDFair. The show fills up the massive Las Vegas Convention Center, and virtually every booth there is showing off LED-based lights. Which is a little strange because as it stands today, LEDs have very little penetration into the general lighting... More

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Power modules vs. discretes: White paper quantifies design cycle times

In recent history the march of power design technology has been towards the use of web-based simulation to ease the design chores of putting together power conversion circuits with discrete components (discrete in the sense that power converter ICs are surrounded with passive components and then placed on a pc board.) There is another trend in power circuits, however, and that is towards... More

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Intersil’s LCoS pico projector system shrinks size while cutting costs

Microdisplays, including pico projectors, could be the New Big Thing in consumer electronics. A couple of examples of possible incarnations for tiny LED-based handheld projectors include: Micron’s $99 Pop Video for the iPhone/Pod/Touch is basically the same size as the iPhone.  Proponents say that sharing pictures and videos will take on a social dimension: Or, if... More