Automotive Lighting of the Future - Osram’s Oslon Boost HX for New Concepts
As part of digital mirror device (DMD) systems, the LED enables symbols to be projected onto the road in HD quality
Just like a normal projector can display pictures on a screen, a DMD system with its millions of micro-mirrors can project light onto the road in the form of symbols.
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Maxim’s LED Backlight Driver - Smallest Footprint for Larger Automotive Displays
Automotive infotainment designers can now upgrade to bigger, higher resolution displays with greater ease, reduced cost and smaller solution size with the MAX20069 from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: MXIM). The MAX20069 provides the industry’s first solution integrating four I2C-controlled, 150 mA LED backlight drivers and a four-output thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT-LCD) bias in a single chip. The IC can reduce design footprint up to one-third compared to the closest competitor’s parts.
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Vishay Automotive Grade Power LEDs - Latest AllnGaP Technology in Smallest Chip Size
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) today introduced two new series of surface-mount Automotive Grade power LEDs in PLCC-2 and ultra compact MiniLED packages. Utilizing the latest advanced AllnGaP technology in the smallest chip size available, the Vishay Semiconductors VLMx335xx and VLMx235xx series deliver high brightness and maximum drive current up to 50 mA for automotive, industrial, and consumer applications.
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Analog Devices Announces 60 VOUT Synchronous Boost LED Driver
Analog Devices announces the Power by Linear™ LT3762, a 60V output, high efficiency, synchronous, boost LED driver controller with a programmable internal LED PWM signal generator and spread spectrum frequency modulation that yield low EMI noise. The versatile LT3762 includes a rail-to-rail current sense amplifier, enabling high side or low side current sensing that in addition to synchronous boost facilitates synchronous buck-mode and buck-boost mode topologies and nonsynchronous SEPIC designs.
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Innovative XLS Product Family from Osram is Revolutionizing the Signal Lamp Market
Osram is launching XLS (eXchangable LED Signal), standardized LED light sources for signal light applications in the automotive industry. By combining standardized light sources and LED technology they will fundamentally change the automotive signal lamp sector. “For the first time, a uniform platform with four different light sources can cover all the important signal applications in vehicles. This allows simple replacements, reduces complexity and overall costs for car manufacturers and leads to faster development processes thanks to adapted standards”, said Hans-Joachim Schwabe, CEO Specialty Lighting at Osram. The LED-based signal lamps are scheduled to appear on the roads from the fall of 2018.
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Elmos' LIN Controller for Flicker-Free RGB LED Applications in Vehicle Interior
The Elmos IC E521.36 enables a variable, cost-efficient and very space-saving design of RGB LED modules for the connection to a LIN bus. The device includes a powerful 16-bit microcontroller with 32 kbyte NVM, 128-byte EEPROM and a LIN transceiver that meets the requirements up to LIN 2.2. The integrated microcontroller can be programmed with IAR's widely used software development environment. The addressing in the network takes place with the integrated BSM auto-addressing (bus shunt method).
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Flicker-Free Control of Individual LEDs in Matrix Headlights
LEDs combine design flexibility with practical, robust circuitry, enabling automotive designers
to produce striking headlight designs matched by exceptionally long life and performance.
Keith Szolusha, Sr. Design Leader for LED driver products at Linear Technology, and now part of
Analog Devices explains how automobile designers are increasingly incorporating LEDs in lighting
because they can be arranged in distinctive eye-catching designs - helping distinguish new models
from old, or high end from economy.
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American Bright Introduces NEW EzyLED
American Bright, a global LED lighting solutions manufacturer, today announced a new series of EzyLED 3030. EzyLEDs are connected in parallel, and directly driven by a conventional 12V /24V DC source. For this series of low-to-medium powered LEDs, the IC is built into the LED chip design which dramatically reduces the additional circuitry and eliminates the need for on-the board IC driver and other passive components. Without the need for extra resistors, bridge rectifiers and current regulative diode, inventory management is dramatically reduced making this an ideal solution due to its simplicity and ease of use.
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EVERLIGHT’s 3D Automobile Taillight Winning “Innovation Award” at Taipei AMPA
EVERLIGHT ELECTRONICS, a leading player in the global LED and optoelectronics industry, attended the Taipei AMPA to demonstrate new products for automobiles and win the “Innovation Award” at electronic end products and parts group with 3D automobile taillight.
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Osram Adds Six New High-Power Infrared LEDs to Its Oslon Black Family
Osram Opto Semiconductors is expanding its Oslon Black family for the infrared range with six new automotive IREDs. The 850 nm versions are intended for exterior applications such as night vision, pedestrian protection, pre-field recognition and lane detection. The new 940 nm versions are suitable above all for interior automotive applications such as driver monitoring, seat occupancy detection and gesture recognition. Thanks to different wavelengths and lenses these products cover a wide range of customer requirements and can be operated at up to 5 A in pulsed mode.
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Lextar Announced ADB Automotive Headlight Module
LED vertical integration manufacturer Lextar Electronics Corp (“Lextar” or the “Company”) released its adaptive driving beam (ADB) LED headlight module system. In coordination with CCD module, it can detect oncoming cars and dynamically adjust the beam pattern, creating a future new trend for LED automotive headlights. Moreover, the series products of automotive LED packaging, LED module, light engine and others was also displayed at the Auto Lamp Exhibition Shanghai (ALE) on Mar. 28 and 29 to demonstrate the vertical integrated LED product capacity of Lextar.
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Inova Semiconductors' ISELED LED Driver - Now Available as Standalone IC
Inova Semiconductors today announced a new standalone smart RGB LED driver and controller, the INLC100Q16. This is the latest member of Inova’s ISELED family, a truly revolutionary concept for in-car LED lighting that substantially reduces costs, simplifies control and enables dynamically changing light.
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Semiconductor Solutions for Automotive Applications
At the embedded world 2018 Elmos is presenting motor and LED driver solutions. Possible applications include vehicle rear lights, ambient lighting in the vehicle interior and control of BLDC motors in the 48 V board network. You will find Elmos in Hall 3-341, at the booth of the distributor MEV Elektronik Service GmbH.
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Interior Automotive Lighting Control Redefined
In modern car’s interior lighting, tough requirements and rising complexity are a huge challenge.
A new industry consortium was formed to meet this technological challenge and to provide a
comprehensive ecosystem for the new digital LED lighting paradigm. The founding members of
the Open ISELED Alliance are Inova Semiconductors (ISELED "Digital LED" concept and LED
controller), Dominant Opto Technologies (LED manufacturing and packaging), NXP (system
microcontroller), TE Connectivity (system integration and connection technology) and Pforzheim
University (theoretical framework). The alliance recently added LucieLabs (software, firmware),
a French IoT Software startup to its line-up. The goal of all these organizations is to work in
close cooperation to present a complete system solution - a true ecosystem. Roland Neumann,
CTO of Inova Semiconductors introduces the challenges and the worked out innovative solution
that uses a single system controller to individually address up to 4,096 LEDs.
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New Osram LED for Headlights on all Vehicle Classes
Oslon Compact PL combines new chip technology with excellent thermal properties
Osram Opto Semiconductors has added the new Oslon Compact PL to its portfolio of products for the automotive sector. The LED is particularly suitable for use in vehicle headlights. It can be used for adaptive glare-free high beam, daytime running lights, low beam and standard high beam. This all-rounder combines improved design with low system costs, making it suitable for different vehicle classes and accessible to a broad spectrum of customers.
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