LEDs offers a combination of flexibility and efficiency unmatched by conventional forms of lighting, and are being adopted in architectural- and stage-lighting applications because they emit highly ...

Lumissil Microsystems has created a pair of LED drivers that include a 32MHz 8051 microcontroller. “These new controllers enable lighting engineers to create customised dynamic LED lighting animations ...

Ideal for automotive lighting applications, the MAX16806 EEPROM-programmable LED driver with current foldback eliminates the need for an external microcontroller or switch-mode converter. Features ...

The LM3914 LED bar graph driver was an amazing chip back in the day. Along with the LM3915, its logarithmic cousin, these chips gave a modern look to projects, allowing dancing LEDs to stand in for a ...

Catalyst Semiconductor’s CAT4004 is a four-channel low dropout driver (LDD) designed for portable applications where the LEDs are driven directly from the battery. Catalyst Semiconductor’s CAT4004 is ...

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation ("Toshiba") has started volume shipments of the SmartMCD™ Series of gate driver ICs with embedded microcontroller (MCU). The first product, "TB9M003FG, ...

[Konstantin] had some extra 27C256 EPROMS lying around and decided to use them to animate an 8×8 LED matrix. He’s not only using them to store data, but driving the display with them as well. The chip ...