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José M Blanes and Ausiàs Garrigós EDN Electronics engineers often use photovoltaic-module simulators to test dc/dc-power converters, inverters, or MPPT (maximum-power-point-tracking)-control techniques. The use of these ...

Massimo Gottardi EDN The Design Idea in Figure 1 is a color detector capable of generating an RGB triplet over a high dynamic range, a useful attribute for machine vision applications. The circuit implements auto-exposure control to achieve this. ...

Many suitable circuits exist for driving LEDs in constant-current mode and from low-voltage sources. For example, references 1 , and 2 show circuits that use switched-mode-regulator ICs and low-voltage sources to supply LED current. To produce a ...

Loren Passmore EDN As in a previous Design Idea (Reference 1), this design uses an LED as a transducer to measure the ambient-light level and to provide illumination. This Design Idea uses the same principle as its predecessor but consists of only ...

Luca Bruno Electronic Design This basic low-power driver, based on a few standard discrete components, can supply a variety of LED types and loads. Figure 1. With a few standard discrete components, this LED driver can source current to a series ...

Luca Bruno EDN The Design Idea in Figure 1 is a precision current mirror used to drive two strings of five white LEDs. Figure 1. Current source/mirror driving two LED strings. The op-amp has double negative feedback (since M2 inverts the signal at ...

General information In this article we will talk about a simple device that I designed for automatic control of additional LED lighting in the kitchen. Kitchen renovating and complete replacement of kitchen cabinetry are main reasons for ...

Matthew Grant, Linear Technology Design Note 556 Introduction The LT®3952 monolithic LED driver includes a 4 A, 60 V DMOS power switch, excellent for driving high current LEDs in buck mode. Among its many features is an input current sense ...

SK Kaul and IK Kaul EDN The absence of a fast one-shot multivibrator in the entire TTL family, as well as the low-voltage swing and unwieldy supply requirements of ECL, drove us to exploit the fast transition times and low propagation delays of ...

A basic combination of a photovoltaic panel, multiple LEDs, and a small dc-dc regulator can provide light in dark corners while also offering a modest auxiliary dc-power rail. A solar-powered, daytime-only lamp without a battery for energy storage ...