Elektor Business Magazine (EBM) aims to establish a busy bidirectional link between the electronics industry and research institutions on the one hand and ambitious hardware and software developers in homelabs, startups and spinouts, on the other. In fact, the magazine is in place wherever solid guidance is required on a journey of high-tech inspiration.

The June 2016 edition of EBM covers the wide field of LEDs and LED drivers. The diversity in the field is colorful and radiant like the very object of all activity: the light emitting diode. In the dim past the device was no more than a rather unreliable on/off indicator with few or no guarantees for color, lifetime, intensity, or current consumption. Over a period of 20 years, the production processes were successfully tweaked to stabilize color and intensity of the simple LED on/off indicator, inevitably leading to clever LED drivers that can take on the job of intelligent street lighting and much more.

The EBM June edition reflects the diversity that has become so typical for LED technology. You will find contributions from startups here, as well as contributions from big companies behaving as startups. The synchronizing of LEDs and LED drivers is covered, as are regulations that affect everyone in the LED business, not forgetting technologies that equate to a new color experience. If you want to know more about software controlled digital LED drivers, then look no further and please value the contributions of renowned companies like OSRAM, Lumileds and Infineon, as well as from a startup like FuturoLighting and a well-respected institution like TÜV SÜD.

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