I have spent at least an hour almost every day since the 80’s advancing my knowledge in electronics. Recently I brushed up my knowledge on LED fading secrets and attained something pleasant. Now, I’d ...

How a single LED driver can support buck, boost, and buck-boost topologies. Design details for each topology type. How such drivers work in automotive and machine-vision designs. The breadth of LED ...

Date Announced: 07 Feb 2012 Sunnyvale, CA – Supertex, Inc. (Nasdaq GS: SUPX) today introduced HV9989, a three channel, boost LED driver integrated circuit (IC) designed to drive LEDs in LCD ...

Pulse Width Modulation is definitely the preferred method of dimming an LED with a microcontroller, but we were interested in hearing about a different method called Binary Code Modulation. BCM does ...

Linear Technology Corp. introduces the LT3761, a dc/dc controller designed to operate as a constant-current source and constant-voltage regulator. It also features a programmable internal PWM dimming ...

Among all the Arduino boards, the Uno is most folks' go-to choice, and for good reason. It's the perfect platform to get started with Arduino, it's capable enough to handle a wide range of tasks, and ...

In adding an alternative cutter drive motor (‘spindle’) to an existing cnc machine, an electrically isolated pwm to analogue converter is needed. The machine uses a ‘grbl’ controller, which has an ...