The LED Reference Design Cookbook contains 17 general, backlight and automotive reference designs. The Cookbook is designed to provide engineers with a valuable tool to help solve their lighting design needs. Customers seeking the latest in innovative and affordable LED lighting solutions can benefit from TI’s broad product portfolio of AC/DC, DC/DC, LED drivers, power [...]
I’m here at the Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. If you ask any student to point to the silicon content in their house they will immediately point to their solar array. Very few will point to the dozens of inverters, power supplies, TV’s, computers, ipods, horizontal axis washers, LED lights, or other items that are [...]
Professor Soo-Young Park and his team at the Seoul National University in Korea successfully developed a white LED with a color rendering index (CRI) closer to daylight than current white LEDs.
The development parallels the ongoing efforts by LED manufacturers who continue investing in the improvement of luminous efficiency, lifetime and the quality of light as [...]
Yesterday, TI announced its new TMS320F2803x Piccolo MCUs featuring a Control Law Accelerator (CLA) producing more reliable, energy-efficient embedded control applications that provide 5X performance boost, making it possible for developers to integrate key system functions in a single controller. This integration helps reduce overall system cost while enabling technologies that use less power, such [...]
TI is a leader in power management, embedded processors, and sensors which all are important contributors to increasing the efficiency of making various end equipments more efficient. The stimulus package recently enacted in the United States provides direct funding and tax incentives to accelerate deployment of clean and energy efficient technologies both in federal government [...]
This week at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in Silicon Valley, CA, TI will showcase the latest in green/energy efficient engineering with informative sessions on energy harvesting and LED lighting.
“Batteryless Energy Harvesting in Embedded System Design (ESC-305)” – Adrian Valenzuela, Product Marketing Engineer
“A Single Controller-based LED Lighting System (ESC-465)” – Hrishikesh Nene, C2000 Applications [...]
Well, the Strategies in Light conference did the trick for me. I still have things coming up in my mind and go “…ah yeah, … she said that… that’s really important.” So here is a more structured summary of what I saw and heard:
After tens of millions of dollars and many lawsuits, more and more x-licensing deals [...]
During the short time I have been in the LED space I received a lot of feedback that the Strategies Conference in Santa Clara next week is an absolute must-attend if you want to play in the LED lighting space. So I am going to California and am expecting to learn a ton. Market numbers, [...]
LEDs have been constantly evolving over the last couple of decades. Developments like the blue and high brightness LEDs mark important steps towards the broad adoption of solid state lighting in TV, computer displays and outdoor signs. With the display markets moving ahead, the natural next step is to have solid state lighting help save energy [...]
This week, TI introduced four new development tools which will help design engineers create energy-efficient and ultra-low power applications quickly and easily. Three new C2000 tools offer enhanced functionality for energy-efficient applications, such as solar inverters and LED lighting, while the new MSP430 tool helps drive low power applications, such as energy harvesting, wireless sensing and [...]