Technical Features

May 2012

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Figure 1: How to run the ACT72350 BLDC motor example

Optimizing BLDC Motor Control Through System Simulation

Siddharth Mohan, Sr. Design Engineer, Qorvo

Why BLDC motors? Electric motors are responsible for roughly 50% of the world’s total electrical energy consumption, according to the European Commission1. Improving motor efficiency not only reduces operational costs but also plays a vital role in lowering global CO₂ emissions. Among available motor te

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Date:

06/30/2025

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Figure 1: Lighting controls for next generation lighting.

Next-generation commercial building network-connected lighting systems

Sajol Ghoshal, Director, Sensor Driven Lighting, ams

A significant percentage of a building's energy consumption is due to its lighting. Historically, lighting was a coarsely controlled power load, managed manually with a simple on-off switch. With

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Date:

05/21/2012

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Figure 1: Incandescent light bulbs (blue curves) are purely resistive, LEDs (red curves) are not.

What to expect from your LED driver

Shane Callanan, Director of Applications Engineering, Excelsys Technologies

LEDs are gaining significant traction in the lighting market due to their long operating lifetime, low running cost, and ease of control for specific applications. However, in order to realize

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Date:

05/20/2012

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Figure 1: The LT3791 Driving a 3 A LED Array at up to 100 W

LED-driver ICs lead to a broad spectrum of lighting

Author: Tony Armstrong, Director of Product Marketing, Power Products Linear Technology

Incandescent light bulbs waste 90% of the energy they consume in the form of heat. The light outputs from HB (high-brightness) LEDs have already exceeded the critical milestone of 100 lm/W. In fact,

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Date:

05/20/2012

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Figure 1: Modern robotic systems featuring sophisticated multi-axis arms are adding to factory productivity and safety. Simply picking up an object can require several sensors.

Smart and simple sensor interfaces

Tamara Schmitz, Applications Manager, Optical Sensors Intersil Corporation

Automation is providing improvements in safety, accuracy, and convenience for many everyday applications. Consider the precision and advantages of computer-assisted surgery or the array of automation

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Date:

05/20/2012

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Figure 1: Resonant driver for high-power LED-lighting applications.

High-power LED-lighting drivers

Peter B. Green, LED Group Manager, International Rectifier

Solid-state lighting applications such as streetlights and industrial lighting demand drivers that offer better efficiency than the traditional flyback topology in the 50—250 W power range. As

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Date:

05/19/2012

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Figure 1: One-Stage Approach: The driver converts an AC-rectified line voltage to the necessary DC current through a flyback transformer and filter. Unfortunately, the rectified voltage contains ripple at twice the line frequency (100 or 120 Hz).

Flicker and dimmer challenges in LED-lamp design

Scott Brown, Senior Vice President, Marketing, iWatt

The SSL (solid-state lighting) industry is in a state of excitement mixed with trepidation. With the obvious need for lighting more efficient than traditional incandescents, key market drivers

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Date:

05/19/2012

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Figure 1: Development of CNA ASICs

Closed-loop voltage scaling

Randy Skinner, Staff Product Marketing Engineer, Lattice Semiconductor

For some designs, reducing circuit-board power dissipation by 25% to 30% would just be a nice outcome. For other designs, it's an absolute necessity. Designers of products using the latest high-performance

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Date:

05/19/2012