Design News - September 05, 2005

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In the pre-dawn hours of October 8th, the engineers will be out in the desert darkness, lining up their all-terrain vehicles, SUVs, Hummers, and pick-ups, to have a go at the impossible. And after all the sensors and servers, lasers and LIDARs, steer-by-wires and brake-by-wires have been checked and re-checked, and the flag has dropped, they'll have to let go.

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Light Matters: Systems Level Approach to HBLED illumination applications
Its good practice to apply a systems-level approach to high-brightness LED (HBLED) illumination applications. Minimally, the system includes the optical, thermal and electrical characteristics of the of the HBLED, the lens (if any) which is built-in to its package, secondary optics such as external plastic lenses/reflectors to direct the light as your application requires and power driver electronics. Read More

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