A large percentage of LED drivers offered by many vendors use PWM (pulse-width modulation) intensity control to adjust LED brightness for a wide range of applications. In the PWM drivers, the ...

In addition to their customary roles as indicators and illuminators, modern LEDs can also serve as photovoltaic detectors (reference 1 and reference 2). Simply connecting a red LED to a multimeter and ...

Consumer-based LED applications have really taken off. You now find them in home lighting, airplane cabin lights, automobile lights, MP3 players, and elsewhere. In the past, most LED drivers were ...

The Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGS) governs the intensity of navigation lights, requiring a minimum intensity in candelas according to a ...

This application note shows how to make use of the Maxim MAX6958/9 IC’s for driving LED’s and controlling their intensity. The LED’s can be made to blink or light up brighter than other LED’s. To view ...