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Monthly Archives: July 2012

Report says power semi to grow 8% CAGR for five years

Monday, July 30, 2012

By Paul O’Shea The global power discrete and module market is forecast to grow by $9 billion to reach $26.2 billion in 2016, according to a new report from IMS Research due out in August. The report “Power semiconductor discretes and modules” states that the market is projected to grow by a compound annual growth [...]

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U.S. EPA Moves Closer to Harmonized Lamp Spec, but Still Has a Way to Go

Friday, July 27, 2012

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just released its Draft 2 of a program specification aimed to combine the individual specs for LED and CFL light bulbs (lamps). The ambitious project began last October, when the EPA issued a first attempt at a technology-neutral specification for a wide range of general lighting lamps, including [...]

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What’s New with Europe’s  ErP Ecodesign Directive?

Thursday, July 26, 2012

The first half of 2012 has brought some movement to the European Commission’s Ecodesign Directive for ErPs. Potential regulation drafts (known as Working Documents) for a number of products have been distributed for discussion in Regulatory Committees. The lot that affects room air conditioners, Lot 10, has been approved and will become effective early next [...]

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New Online Tool for LED Bulb Type Selection

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Whenever you see a picture of an LED bulb, you most often see an A19 bulb – the one that most resembles the familiar incandescent bulb that goes in your overhead light fixture or reading lamp. However, LED lighting comes in all shapes and sizes, from street lights to office lighting, to that dimmable track [...]

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Gentlemen (and Ladies): Start Your Engines!

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Traditional wisdom has it that for learning to occur we have to be serious and quiet. To which I say balderdash! Learning can and should be fun. As evidence I submit DevCon Session #0L01I (“Micon Racing– Qualify using QuantiPhi for RL 78”). In this hands-on lab participants use cutting-edge, model-based design tools to design a [...]

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New phase change memory IC announced

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

by Jim Harrison Micron Technology has announced volume availability of a 45-nm phase change memory (PCM) chip with 1-Gbit of PCM plus 512-Mbit of standard LPDDR2 in a multichip package. No part number or performance/power details were given, so I guess this part is going to preferred customers for the time being – probably cellphone [...]

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DevCon 2012: Velocity Lab Enables Fast, Easy and Inexpensive System Design

Monday, July 16, 2012

Remember your Physics 101 class? In it you were introduced to scalar and vector quantities, of which the first example most likely was velocity, a vector quantity that takes into account the rate at which an object changes its position. This, we learned, is why velocity differs from speed, which is a scalar quantity that [...]

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