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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Web-Based Electronic Design Automation Tools for LUXEON Power LEDs
Philips Lumileds and Future Lighting Solutions have introduced the first comprehensive suite of online Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools designed to speed the prototyping and development of solid-state lighting solutions for general lighting applications such as task lamps, recessed downlights, outdoor lighting and shop lighting.
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Future Lighting Solutions - LED Reliability Tool: Make Design Tradeoffs Between Performance and Lifetime
Future Lighting Solutions has released the LED Reliability Tool (LRT) at www.futurelightingsolutions.com/LRT, the first interactive online tool that enables lighting designers to truly predict the lifetime of LEDs in their application as a function of junction temperature and current. All the results from the LRT have a 90% confidence interval, which allows users to accurately make design tradeoff decisions such as increasing drive current or decreasing the size of the thermal management solution while reaching a target LED lifetime. Read more »
Ray Files for OSRAM LEDs
OSRAM is the first LED manufacturer in the world to provide direct internet access to the ray data for its light emitting diodes. The ray files indicate the pattern in which light is emitted from an LED and include the coordinates of the emission point, the direction of emission, the intensity and the wavelength.
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TRACEPRO® 5.0 Delivers Enhanced Light Source Modeling
Lambda Research Corporation, a leading supplier of optical design software, announces TracePro 5.0, the latest release of its software for optical modeling, design and analysis.
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Philips Lumileds Simplifies Solid-State Lighting Design Projects with New Online Resources
Philips Lumileds introduced new online tools that simplify the development of general lighting and other solutions utilizing LUXEON LEDs. Optical, Mechanical & Electrical Files extend the development resources available to the lighting community.
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ORA Improves Modeling and Disign Options with the Release of LightTools 6.1
The newest release of LightTools illumination design and analysis software from Optical Research Associates (ORA®) delivers a number of advanced modeling and analysis features that facilitate the design of sophisticated luminaires, LEDs, and displays.
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Future Lighting Solutions Offers the Industry’s First Thermal Simulation Software for High-Power LEDs
Future Lighting Solutions and Qfinsoft announce the release of QLed, the first thermal design software developed for the solid state lighting industry. QLed minimizes the number of design cycles, reduces development costs and decreases time to market by eliminating the traditional trial-and-error approach to thermal design.
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Online Design Environment Matches Industry-Leading LEDs with PowerWise Energy-Efficient LED Drivers
National Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE:NSM) today introduced its light-emitting diode (LED) WEBENCH® online design environment that helps engineers select from and design with more than 200 high-brightness LEDs in minutes.
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Future Lighting Solutions launches Usable Light Tool
Often, when evaluating high-power LEDs, typical flux values, which are measured at a junction temperature of 25°C, are considered only. Such an analysis is incomplete and inaccurate for determining the expected level of light from the light source in a "real world" environment.
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