Arrow Electronics Launches Online Lighting Design Tools to Simplify LED Design and Transition to Solid-State Lighting
Arrow Electronics has announced an application platform that enables engineers to design complete LED lighting solutions in a convenient online environment. The Arrow Lighting Designer offers tools and solutions tailored to customers’ applications, with built-in design guidelines providing quick results.
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Synopsys’ LightTools Delivers Leading-Edge Illumination Analysis
Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the availability of enhancements to its LightTools(r) illumination design and analysis software, acquired as part of Synopsys' acquisition of Optical Research Associates (ORA(r)). LightTools 7.2 delivers features that will help users graphically analyse simulation results, compute important metrics when designing for the lighting industry, iteratively design with CAD ... Read more »
ENCELIUM Introduces POLARIS 3D™ at LIGHTFAIR INTERNATIONAL 2011
TEANECK, N.J., Encelium Technologies, an innovative leader in energy management and lighting control systems, has introduced Polaris 3D, its next generation of lighting control software for the Energy Control System™. As the first software application of its kind in the lighting control industry, Encelium elected to unveil this ground-breaking technology at Lightfair International 2011, held in Philadelphia this spring.
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New Software Forms Foundation for CAD-Integrated Optical Design Software
Breault Research Organization (BRO) has released an updated version of the company's APEX® optical engineering software. Now available to new and existing customers with current software maintenance agreements, APEX 2010 V2R1 represents a leap forward in CAD-integrated optical software architecture.
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Future Facilities' Thermal Simulation Software Solves Cooling Problems
Future Facilities, the leading provider of thermal simulation software for critical facilities and electronics components, has released a case study showing that its new CFD software for electronics cooling design, 6SigmaET solves the problem of how to shrink electronics devices that generate heat.
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New Optical Design Software Released by Optical Engineering Firm Breault Research; ASAP 2010 V1R1 Now Available
Breault Research Organization (BRO), the global provider of virtual prototyping software and optical engineering services, has released a new version of the company's Advanced Systems Analysis Program (ASAP®). The ASAP 2010 V1R1 release includes new features and enhancements to the program well known to the optics industry as the most sophisticated tool available for virtual prototyping of optical systems and devices.
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The Right Lens is a Mouse Click Away
‘LED Light for you’, the OSRAM Opto Semiconductors network that focuses on LEDs and their applications, now offers a new service in the form of an Optical Selection Tool. This is a database containing 350 different lens types from seven of the world’s largest lens manufacturers. It provides comprehensive information so the right lenses can be selected for each particular application.
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ON Semiconductor Launches GreenPoint® Interactive Online Design Simulation Tool
ON Semiconductor, a premier supplier of high performance, energy efficient silicon solutions for green electronics, together with Transim Technology, the leading provider of online design solutions for the semiconductor industry, today launched its interactive GreenPoint® online design simulation tool for high-efficiency LED based lighting applications.
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Lambda Research Corp. Releases TracePro 7.0, Optomechanical Design Software with Multi-Threading Capability
TracePro 7.0 increases raytracing speed up to 10 times over the 6.0 version using new multi-threading algorithms. This release also features a new interactive optimizer, rearrangeable system tree, new Reptile™ geometries and irradiance options.
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National Semiconductor's WEBENCH LED Architect Simplifies and Speeds Lighting Design
National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: NSM) today announced the addition of WEBENCH LED Architect to its award-winning portfolio of online WEBENCH® Designer tools. The first of its kind, WEBENCH LED Architect enables both novice and expert designers to perform real-time comparisons and optimize complex lighting systems for performance, size and cost in minutes.
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Brandenburg Gmbh and Beacon Concepts LLC Announce LucidShape 1.8
Beacon Concepts LLC and Brandenburg announce Release 1.8 of its LucidShape software with LucidFunGeo for lighting design and analysis. LucidShape reduces product development time by 30-50%.
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Cree Launches LED Product Characterization Tool
Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, launched the Product Characterization Tool, an interactive LED design tool that simplifies the task of translating nominal LED performance to real-world conditions. Read more »
Thermal Models for Osram LEDs Now Online
In addition to beam data and electrical data, there are now thermal models available on the internet for OSRAM LEDs – the new information relates primarily to high-power LEDs in the visible range such as the DRAGON family, the Advanced Power TopLED range, the Power TopLED range and some OSTAR versions.
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Philips Lumileds Simplifies the ENERGY STAR®Application Process for SSL
Philips Lumileds has launched a free online tool that makes it easier for manufacturers of LED-based luminaires to show compliance with ENERGY STAR® standards. The tool is available from both the Philips Lumileds and Future Lighting Solutions web sites. Read more »
ILT Presents NEW Version of SpectrilLight III™ ILT900 Software
The NEW version of SpectriLight™ III provides easy setting of all operating controls of the ILT900 spectrometer with an integrated data analysis package (previously an Excel™ export module called SpectriLight™Tools).
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