Gadget Freak Case #153: Accent Lights Are a Crowning Achievement
Date: Nov 23, 2009 | Author: Design News Staff | Design News
As a way to set the mood in his family room, when he remodeled Joe Peck put multi-color LEDs behind the crown molding. + read more.
Power-converter IC targets dimmable LEDs, needs no optoisolator
Date: Nov 12, 2009 | Author: By Margery Conner, Technical Editor | EDN
The large installed base of dimmable-lighting switches dictates that most new lighting technologies, including LED lights, should support dimming, and the myriad disparate specifications for dimming switches requires these lights to meet a wide range of characteristics. + read more.
Fader switch uses inexpensive controller
Date: Nov 12, 2009 | Author: William Grill, Lenexa, KS; Edited by Martin Rowe and Fran Granville | EDN
Customizing a model or a simulator with a bit of illumination is a nice touch. Rather than a simple on or off, you can add a touch of both refinement and control to your display with fading light. + read more.
Cree plans LED facility in China
Date: Nov 9, 2009 | Author: By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News | Electronic News
The 592,000-square-foot facility in Huizhou will be Cree’s first chip-production facility outside of North America and is targeted to also house future components manufacturing expansion. + read more.
Cable tester uses LEDs to find faults
Date: Oct 22, 2009 | Author: Pavel Šádek, Apri, Roznov pod Radhoštem, Czech Republic; Edited by Martin Rowe and Fran Granville | EDN
This Design Idea describes a simple cable-test machine that visually shows continuity issues on a 16-wire cable harness for ultrasonic-parking-aid systems. A subcontractor produces the harness in low volumes, making it impractical to use an automated tester. + read more.
LEDs Brighten New Mustang
Date: Oct 19, 2009 | Author: Charles J. Murray | Design News
Ford's new 2010 Mustang has broadened its use of LEDs, placing the technology in the rear seat, as well as in map pockets, cup holders and even in the door sill plate. + read more.
Assembly at the Speed of LED
Date: Oct 13, 2009 | Author: Design News Staff | Design News
Bergquist Thermal Clad with pre-applied Bond-Ply 450 PA is simple to peel and place. It's specifically configured for Power LED applications and optimizes thermal performance and speeds assembly for applications like BlueSpan's Luxeon LED streetlight. + read more.
Thermal design guidelines for solid-state lighting applications using LEDs
Date: Sep 11, 2009 | Author: By Henry F. and Peter A. Villaume, Villaume Associates | EDN
Here are six critical steps necessary to developing a successful, cost-effective thermal design for an LED application. Two families of LED applications have been used to illustrate many of the design choices that are open to the thermal designer to satisfy these application issues. + read more.
555 timer eliminates LED driver’s need for microprocessor control
Date: Sep 3, 2009 | Author: Michael Day, Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX; Edited by Martin Rowe and Fran Granville | EDN
LEDs find their way into applications that range from high-end video displays to low-end lighting applications. Designers often need only some of the functions of a dedicated LED driver but can’t afford the cost of the microprocessor to control them. + read more.
US Department of Energy invests $6.4M in LED design
Date: Aug 25, 2009 | Author: By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News | Electronic News
The DOE selects four projects that aim to "fill key technology gaps, provide enabling knowledge or data, and represent a significant advancement in the SSL technology base." + read more.
