Advanced Analogic Technologies Incorporated has announced today two new high-performance charge pump products which enable designers to build dramatically smaller, more feature-rich mobile handsets.

As high-efficiency ultra-bright white LEDs come down in cost, they are approaching cost parity with conventional mercury vapour, HID quartz metal halide and high/low pressure sodium lighting on a cost ...

Linear constantcurrent drivers, for instance, offer low EMI, low cost, and use only a few components. Many designers favor them for low-current applications where power loss is a minor concern. If ...

The quest for energy efficiency has led manufacturers to investigate ways of dimming all kinds of lighting technologies, including those that usually can’t be dimmed. Consider, for example, ...

CCFL backlights are the most common backlight technology and are used in displays ranging from 5.7 to 23 in. or more diagonal. They can have from one to 24 or more lamps mounted along the edge of the ...