Texas Instruments Inc. remained in firm control atop the analog IC market in 2010, with $6.2 billion in sales, good for nearly 15 percent of the total analog IC market revenue of $42.29, according to a report circulated Thursday (March 24) by market research firm Databeans Inc. TI’s analog sales increased 42 percent in...
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Archive for March, 2011
TI lengthens lead in analog IC rankings
Analog IP for multimedia SoCs
How should the analog functions that are built into an analog IP multimedia subsystem be selected to address the particular application requirements while guaranteeing the smallest silicon area and the lowest power consumption, a two-fold challenge that is commonly faced today by both system-on-chip (SoC) integrators and IP providers: Some of the new analog...
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PLC Capabilities for Energy-efficient Applications
Bridging the gap between low-cost Piccolo and high-performance Delfino floating-point microcontrollers (MCUs), Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has announced its new low-cost TMS320F2806x Piccolo floating-point MCUs that offer an enhanced math engine specifically designed to simplify programming and optimize performance in real-time control applications that may require integrated communications. via ednasia.com Posted via email from...
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Remote phosphor expands reach of LED light
via edn.com Philips innovation (and some prying by Margery Conner of EDN) shows how the use of a secondary phosphor can help LED lights achieve the near global distribution of an incandescent bulb. Posted via email from mahalowpower’s posterous
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LED Driver Improves Display Data Integrity
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has launched a serial-controlled, 16-channel constant-current sink LED driver with four-channel grouped delay. This device simplifies design in LED display applications, including video displays, message boards, amusement illumination and LED indicators. via ednasia.com Posted via email from mahalowpower’s posterous
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Inside the iPad2 and the Apple A5
via eetimes.com As Apple launched its iPad2 last week, speculation was rife, not just on its features but the hardware, its BoM and now the Apple A5 Processor. UBM TechInsights has begun its tear down analysis of the Apple iPad 2. Looks like the A5 is “a single package containing the processor die and...
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SoC drivers for high brightness LED front lighting applications
The low power consumption and high efficiency levels of LEDs versus traditional automotive lighting such as Xenon and halogen are proving desirable to automotive engineers tasked with reducing CO2 emissions and achieving energy savings from all areas of the vehicle. Front lighting applications that include high-beam, low-beam, daytime running lights (DRLs) and position lights...
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LED Driver Solutions
TI India has recently published an updated and comprehensive LED Reference Design Cookbook for the Indian market. The cookbook is designed to provide you with a valuable tool to help you solve your lighting design needs and covers driver solutions for applications such as LED Light Bulb Replacement, LED Down Lighter, LED Tube Light,...
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Designing with LEDs workshop
The call for papers has opened for the next Designing with LEDs Workshop, to be held May 4, at the San Jose Marriott. Hosted by EDN and EE Times, the workshop is dedicated to the technology design aspects of high-brightness LEDs, principally in lighting and illumination. They’re looking for papers on topics such as...
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