As LEDs continue to penetrate a wide range of diverse market sectors and become the preferred means of lighting, the requirement for circuit protection cannot be ignored.
This paper was developed to help designers understand common threats to LED lighting systems, and provides the best design practices to implement...
Advances in semiconductor technologies from efficient power semiconductors to advanced sensor systems, has lead to the development of intelligent and safe robots. The next evolution of robotics will lead us into era with more autonomous robots and artificial intelligence (AI).
This document exposes ideas on how to...
The next generation of AC solutions for LED bulbs and luminaires has arrived. Traditional AC LEDs have been in production for many years and although they simplify design solutions, they have several limitations.
Today’s Acrich2 solutions from Seoul Semiconductor combine a AC - integrated power IC technology...
Shift registers can help reduce size and BOM in designs that use LEDs. By providing I/O expansion, they enable the use of smaller, less expensive microcontrollers.
In some cases, the shift register can be used to drive the LED directly and thus eliminate the need for external LED drivers. This adds to the savings,...
The first rule of war is “know your enemy”. It is the same principle with Solid State Lighting (SSL) – if you don’t understand how an LED behaves, don’t be surprised when your application doesn’t succeed.
LEDs are non-linear devices. If a low voltage is applied to an LED it does...
Ask system designers to list the problems they face – it doesn’t matter whether they’re building mobile consumer, automotive, industrial, medical or scientific applications – and inevitably they’ll mention optimizing host processor performance. It’s hardly surprising. The event-driven...
Lattice Semiconductor has developed a display interface in the MachXO2 PLD family. Because this interface is now supported in MachXO2 devices, designers have an even lower cost and very low power alternative to implement embedded displays.
This whitepaper provides an overview of this display standard and explain...
To help improve processes, drive productivity and maintain a competitive edge in today’s global economy, leading companies look to a variety of management and process improvement philosophes and practices. A common characteristic shared across the varied approaches is the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)...
Substituting a diode for a resistor in a circuit powered by an AC line is typically an easy recipe for disaster, but it’s the precise challenge faced by designers seeking to replace incandescent lamps with modern high-brightness LED technology.
The VLED15 series from CUI was specifically designed to address...
This whitepaper will introduce the ECP5™ and LatticeECP3™ FPGAs as viable solutions to overcome embedded design co-processing and connectivity challenges, and highlight application examples at the edge in industrial, consumer, automotive and machine learning areas, where these FPGAs solve the above mentioned...
Talon Communications is a Product Development Company specializing in low power wireless and embedded design. Talon designs your product using ultra-low power 8/16/32 bit micro-controllers, sensors and wireless communications.
Designing successful low power wireless products requires many specialized skills....
To guarantee the correct behavior of real-time software running on embedded processors can pose a significant challenge. Data-dependent control flow, where execution times of many functions are dependent on the data inputs, means that instruction sequences are hard to predict.
This document explains how static timing...
For automated test applications, measurement time is often as important as the quality of the measurement. As with many situations, time is money.
This paper will discuss these settings and provide suggestions on improving overall measurement speed.
The three key instrument parameters that affect FSWP measurement...
Published: Mar 22, 2021
Driverless cars are virtually unique in symbolizing the power of future technologies and digitalization to alter our everyday lives. Connected, automated driving holds the promise of significantly higher road safety and convenience. However, trusting an autonomous vehicle is a big step for many people.
Every radar...
