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Will PoE++ be helpful, a headache, or both?
The long-awaited availability of IEEE 802.3 “Physical Layer and Management Parameters for Power over...
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LightFair 2019 products focus on IoT and human
LightFair 2019 trends included lighting-anchored IoT and tunable CCT capability, especially in the c...
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Teardown: Wi
After dissecting a Zigbee-based smart LED light bulb, our teardown engineer puts one based on a diff...
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Quantum Dots: Everything You Need To Know
Discover How Quantum Dots Work In QLED TVs and Everyday Applications. Plus, Learn About Quantum Conf...
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Programmable LED drivers enhance smart device lighting
STMicroelectronics’ LED1202 12-channel low quiescent current LED driver offers 5V output driving cap...
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LED brightens flashlights and work lamps
Housed in a surface-mount epoxy package with a silicone lens, the Osconiq P 3030 LED from Osram ligh...
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Diodes derive logarithms and exponentials to optically sense AC/DC current
In theory, the design of current sensing circuitry, typically based on simple measurement of the IR ...
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Proposed LED/wired IoT standard can reduce energy use (part 2)
Putting together the concepts from part 1, we want to support low voltage building codes, we want $1...
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Proposed LED/wired IoT standard can reduce energy use (part 1)
Using low-voltage wiring to connect LED lighting can cut energy consumption, reduce installation cos...
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Proposed LED/wired IoT standard can reduce energy use (part 3)
In Part 1, we looked at how to remove AC/DC converters from LED bulbs to save energy. Part 2 covered...
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Digital controller serves as efficient LED driver
Housed in a DSO-8 package, the XDPL8210 control IC from Infineon delivers programmable constant-curr...
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Implementing flexible OLED and OLCD display technologies in consumer electronics
Flexible displays have been around for several years, but we are only at the beginning of discoverin...
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Teardown: Bluetooth
See how this Bluetooth LED light bulb compares to the wireless smart LED bulbs we've already di...
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LEDs aid biometric ID in smartwatches
Two infrared LEDs from Osram, the SFH 4170S and SFH 4180S, deliver bright and uniform illumination f...
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Dual driver sources smartphone camera flash
An LED flash driver, the AL3644 from Diodes offers dual independent 1.5 A outputs configured through...
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Power Tips #93: Reduce voltage variation with weighted voltage feedback
Control feedback loops so you get the right amount when providing power with more than one voltage.
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Edison Electric Light Co begins operation, October 15, 1878
On this day in tech history, the “lights were turned on” at the Edison Electric Light Company as it ...
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Motograph News Bulletin debuts in New York City, November 6, 1928
On this day in tech history, the Motograph News Bulletin, better known as the "zipper," de...
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NFC chips ease LED lighting configuration
Two NFC-PWM configuration ICs, Infineon’s NLM0011 and NLM0010 enable contactless programming of the ...
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LED controller dims auto headlights
The TS19501CB10H from Taiwan Semiconductor is an AEC-Q100-qualified dimmable LED controller with spr...
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