Power Integrations launch the latest version of the PI Databook as a mobile app. The PI Databook App is a comprehensive mobile implementation of the complete portfolio of Power Integrations technical documents and enables engineers to access technical data and video from any iOS or Android platform-enabled tablet or smart-phone.

Power Integrations today announced that the latest version of its popular power supply design software, PI Expert Suite 9.0, now includes support for its LinkSwitch-PL and LinkSwitch-PH LED-driver ICs and its recently introduced TinySwitch-4 off-line switcher IC family. Version 9.0 includes an enhanced schematics-manipulation tool. It also enables designers to upload the resulting BOM from the auto-generated schematic layout to selected, leading ...

Power Integrations today announced RDR-347, an LED-downlight reference design. The new circuit demonstrates the capabilities of the recently launched LYTSwitch IC family, which offers the industry’s best high-end dimming performance from a single-stage LED driver– together with all the associated efficiency, space and cost benefits that the single-stage approach brings.

CT-Concept Technologie AG has opened a design center in Ense, Germany. The facility will develop semi-custom gate-drive designs based on its driver cores and produce full-custom drivers using CONCEPT’s SCALE-2 platform for large projects.

PI has just released 24 W LED T10 lamp design (DER-356) with 92% efficiency. This design dramatically simplifies the production of off-line, power factor corrected, LED power supplies.

Power Integrations today announced a new long-lifetime LED-driver reference design. DER-340 describes a wide-range (90 VAC to 308 VAC), high-power-factor LED-driver power supply that is suitable for high-bay, exterior and street-lighting applications.

Power Integrations today announced two new reference designs describing high-efficiency, non-isolated, high-power-factor (PF) LED drivers for T8 tubes. The designs feature low component count and leverage simple magnetics and single-sided boards yielding industry-leading power densities of 14.2 W/in³. Based on the LNK460KG LED driver from Power Integrations’ LinkSwitch-PL family of ICs, the circuits detailed in DER-337 (high-line) and DER-345 ...

Power Integrations today introduced its latest family of LED-driver ICs, aimed at consumer, commercial and industrial lighting applications. The new LYTSwitch IC family delivers tight regulation and high efficiency for tube replacements and high-bay lighting, while providing exceptional performance in TRIAC-dimmable bulb applications.

Power Integrations has unveiled the TinySwitch-4 family, the newest generation of its industry-leading TinySwitch series of off-line switcher ICs. Featuring line-compensated overload power protection, TinySwitch-4 devices dramatically reduce the maximum overload power that can be delivered into the load over the entire AC input voltage range.

Power Integrations today announced DER-323, a reference design for an 18W, 88%-efficient, non-isolated A19 LED driver based on LNK460VG, a low-profile IC from the company’s LinkSwitch-PL family. The design is suitable for a 100 W incandescent bulb replacement and is optimized for low-line (90 VAC to 135 VAC) operation. The circuit is low-cost, requiring only a simple single-sided board and 25 components. No potting is necessary and the transfor...

Power Integrations today announced two new additions to its LinkSwitch-PH IC family. The new devices allow commercial lighting applications up to 75 W to benefit from single-stage design, dramatically reducing BOM cost and enabling a smaller driver with very high efficiency.

Power Integrations a annoncé aujourd'hui LinkSwitch-HP, une nouvelle famille de circuits intégrés d'alimentation à découpage secteur qui peut fournir une puissance de sortie jusqu'à 90 W avec une régulation précise côté primaire (PSR).

Power Integrations have unveiled LinkSwitch-HP, a new family of energy-efficient, off-line switcher ICs that can deliver up to 90 W output power with accurate primary-side regulation. LinkSwitch-HP ICs utilize innovative control algorithms and the properties of the main power transformer and output diode – instead of optocouplers and related feedback circuitry – to determine the amount of power to deliver from the primary to the isolated seco...

Power Integrations today announced a reference design kit for a 150 W, 48 V power supply for LED streetlights and other industrial/infrastructure lighting systems. The driver circuit described in RDR-292 is more than 93% efficient at 230 VAC input and above 91% at 110 VAC. The design delivers a system power factor of greater than 0.97, THD of less than 10%, and easily meets EN61000-3-2 C. Designs can be scaled from 75 W to 400 W, using the same p...

Power Integrations today announced an LED-driver reference design for high-power LED bulb replacement. The driver can deliver the power required for a 100 W incandescent bulb replacement in an A19 form factor - an industry first. DER-322 describes a non-isolated, 93% efficient, high-power-factor (PF) LED driver designed to drive a nominal LED string voltage of 78 V at 230 mA from an input voltage range of 195 VAC to 265 VAC (47 Hz — 63 Hz). The...

PI recently released a design for a non-isolated, high-efficiency, high power factor, 4.5 W TRIAC dimmable LED driver designed to drive a nominal LED string voltage of 48 V at 93 mA (4.5 W) from an input voltage range of 90 VAC to 132 VAC (47 Hz - 63 Hz).

Power Integrations annonce le design de référence DER-286 décrivant une alimentation à ballast de 30 W pour LED de remplacement de tubes fluorescents ; capable des meilleures rendements de l’industrie en atteignant jusqu’à 90% avec une large plage de tension d’entrée, ce pilote de LED respecte les directives internationales réglementant le facteur de puissance (PF) et la distorsion harmonique totale (THD).

Power Integrations today launched an online selection tool that enables users to rapidly identify the best power supply reference design for their LED lighting application. The LED Design Selector allows engineers to enter simple selection criteria and provides the best choice from Power Integrations’ library of reference design options for LED lighting.

Power Integrations today announced a new reference design (DER-286) describing a 30 W LED driver tube replacement ballast power supply capable of achieving industry-leading efficiency levels of over 90% across a wide input-voltage range while meeting worldwide requirements for power factor (PF) and total harmonic distortion (THD).

Power Integrations has published a reference design (DER-297) describing a high-efficiency, ultra-compact driver for a B10-style LED light bulb. Based on Power Integrations' LinkSwitch-PL non-isolated, single-stage LED driver IC, the power supply is specifically tailored for use with high-voltage LEDs such as the recently announced XLamp XM-L and XLamp XT-E ranges from Cree. DER-297 provides the high-voltage output required by the LEDs, optimizin...