High power LED lighting is harder than it looks. Power, dimming, control, and communication collide in one design.

Higher power density, smaller form factors and long-life reliability expectations all collide, requiring better thermal ...

We’ve often heard you should do everything twice. The first time is to learn what you need to do, and the second time is to do it right. We bet [Ian Carey] would agree after taking his old linear ...

I bought a 90-W equivalent LED floodlight at Home Depot several years ago. It’s obsolete now, but was state-of-the-art when I purchased it. My first abuse was to drop it, which cracked the glass lens.

Fundamental to careful system design of any DC/DC power converter is a well-planned and carefully executed printed circuit board (PCB) layout. An optimized layout leads to better performance, lower ...

6. SOT-23 and SOIC packages are typically used in low-power motor drivers. Standard leaded packages, like SOIC and SOT-23 packages, are often used for low-power motor drivers (Fig. 6). To maximize the ...

You may be an experienced machinist or an expert programmer – but do you really know how a CNC machine works? What it is designed to do is often quite different from how it turns or grinds or drills, ...