SAN JOSE, USA: IDT (Integrated Device Technology Inc.), a leading provider of essential mixed signal semiconductor solutions that enrich the digital media experience announced a favorable ruling issued by the International Trade Commission (ITC) in a patent action brought by LSI Corp. against several semiconductor companies, including IDT. In the ruling, the ITC found that the patent claims asserted by LSI were invalid.
LSI had alleged that IDT and the other defendants in the action violated section 337 of the Tariff Act which prohibits the importation and sale of infringing products. Based on the finding of invalidity, the Court held that no violation of section 337 has occurred with respect to the asserted claims.
The full ITC Commission has until November 21 to determine whether to review the initial determination of the judge or allow it to become final.
Thursday, 24 September 2009
Qosmos announces support for Tilera multicore processors
PARIS, FRANCE: Qosmos ixEngine – a network intelligence software development kit providing real-time visibility of data as it crosses networks –- has been optimized to run on Tilera multi-core processors, delivering high speed performance for the most demanding and sensitive networks.
Qosmos, provider of Network Intelligence technology that enables deep visibility into data crossing networks, announced a strategic partnership with Tilera. Qosmos ixEngine is now optimized to run on Tilera’s TILEPro64 multi-core embedded processor.
Tilera’s TILEPro64 multi-core processor delivers the highest application throughput on the market at the best performance per watt, satisfying the ever increasing computing needs of high-end security, advanced networking and wireless infrastructure systems.
With this development, Qosmos’ solution provider customers can rely on the increased application performance enabled by the TILEPro64 processor for applications that require high speed network analysis in real time, such as lawful interception, cyber security, network protection, advanced billing and network optimization.
Organizations that will benefit from the higher performance of the combined solution include:
* Government cyber security departments who will be able to enhance security applications to detect and act on cyber attacks much more quickly.
* Telecom solution providers, who need instant traffic analysis to enable applications such as market research, billing, policy management and network optimization to provide a full understanding of subscriber behavior.
“We have worked very closely with Tilera’s R&D team to optimize ixEngine to take full advantage of the added speed and capacity of their processors,” said Jérôme Tollet, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Qosmos.
“Tilera'’s multicore processors are especially well-suited to handling IP traffic at the speeds our customers need for their telecom and government industry solutions. In addition, developers can work in a familiar Linux environment and benefit from standards-based tools.”
“It is a pleasure to partner with an industry leader such as Qosmos. Both our product lines can integrate easily into existing networks, reducing initial investment and OPEX while at the same time keeping future growth affordable,” said Vijay Aggarwal, Vice President and Co-Founder of Tilera.
“Together we can enable our OEM customers to develop cost-competitive solutions and help reduce their development time, allowing them to take solutions to market more quickly and affordably.”
Qosmos, provider of Network Intelligence technology that enables deep visibility into data crossing networks, announced a strategic partnership with Tilera. Qosmos ixEngine is now optimized to run on Tilera’s TILEPro64 multi-core embedded processor.
Tilera’s TILEPro64 multi-core processor delivers the highest application throughput on the market at the best performance per watt, satisfying the ever increasing computing needs of high-end security, advanced networking and wireless infrastructure systems.
With this development, Qosmos’ solution provider customers can rely on the increased application performance enabled by the TILEPro64 processor for applications that require high speed network analysis in real time, such as lawful interception, cyber security, network protection, advanced billing and network optimization.
Organizations that will benefit from the higher performance of the combined solution include:
* Government cyber security departments who will be able to enhance security applications to detect and act on cyber attacks much more quickly.
* Telecom solution providers, who need instant traffic analysis to enable applications such as market research, billing, policy management and network optimization to provide a full understanding of subscriber behavior.
“We have worked very closely with Tilera’s R&D team to optimize ixEngine to take full advantage of the added speed and capacity of their processors,” said Jérôme Tollet, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Qosmos.
“Tilera'’s multicore processors are especially well-suited to handling IP traffic at the speeds our customers need for their telecom and government industry solutions. In addition, developers can work in a familiar Linux environment and benefit from standards-based tools.”
“It is a pleasure to partner with an industry leader such as Qosmos. Both our product lines can integrate easily into existing networks, reducing initial investment and OPEX while at the same time keeping future growth affordable,” said Vijay Aggarwal, Vice President and Co-Founder of Tilera.
“Together we can enable our OEM customers to develop cost-competitive solutions and help reduce their development time, allowing them to take solutions to market more quickly and affordably.”
AMD changes game with ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series DirectX 11-compliant graphics cards
SUNNYVALE, USA: AMD launched the most powerful processor ever created1, found in its next-generation ATI Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards, the world’s first and only to fully support Microsoft DirectX 112, the new gaming and compute standard shipping shortly with Microsoft Windows 7 operating system.
Boasting up to 2.72 TeraFLOPS of compute power, the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series effectively doubles the value consumers can expect of their graphics purchases, delivering twice the performance-per-dollar of previous generations of graphics products.3 AMD will initially release two cards: the ATI Radeon HD 5870 and the ATI Radeon HD 5850, each with 1GB GDDR5 memory.
With the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series of graphics cards, PC users can expand their computing experience with ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology, accelerate their computing experience with ATI Stream technology, and dominate the competition with superior gaming performance and full support of Microsoft DirectX 11, making it a “must-have” consumer purchase just in time for Microsoft Windows 7 operating system.
“With the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series of graphics cards driven by the most powerful processor on the planet, AMD is changing the game, both in terms of performance and the experience,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager, Products Group, AMD.
“As the first to market with full DirectX 11 support, an unmatched experience made possible with ATI Eyefinity technology, and ATI Stream technology harnessing open standards designed to help make Windows 7 that much better, I can say with confidence that AMD is the undisputed leader in graphics once more.”
Boasting up to 2.72 TeraFLOPS of compute power, the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series effectively doubles the value consumers can expect of their graphics purchases, delivering twice the performance-per-dollar of previous generations of graphics products.3 AMD will initially release two cards: the ATI Radeon HD 5870 and the ATI Radeon HD 5850, each with 1GB GDDR5 memory.
With the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series of graphics cards, PC users can expand their computing experience with ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology, accelerate their computing experience with ATI Stream technology, and dominate the competition with superior gaming performance and full support of Microsoft DirectX 11, making it a “must-have” consumer purchase just in time for Microsoft Windows 7 operating system.
“With the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series of graphics cards driven by the most powerful processor on the planet, AMD is changing the game, both in terms of performance and the experience,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager, Products Group, AMD.
“As the first to market with full DirectX 11 support, an unmatched experience made possible with ATI Eyefinity technology, and ATI Stream technology harnessing open standards designed to help make Windows 7 that much better, I can say with confidence that AMD is the undisputed leader in graphics once more.”
BroadLight awarded new PON patent
SANTA CLARA, USA: BroadLight, the leading supplier of GPON semiconductors and software, announced that it has been awarded patent number 7,583,904 by the US Patent Office for a "Transimpedance (TIA) circuit usable for burst mode communications."
The TIA circuit includes a TIA stage, a limiter-amplifier and a DC restoration loop. The invention allows enhanced distance between Central Office (OLT) and Customer Premises Equipment (ONT), helping to consolidate central office space and power.
“BroadLight has always been focused on improving our PON end-to-end design and put a special effort on innovative burst mode technology implementation, leveraging our leadership position in the PON IC market,” said Igor Elkanovich, VP VLSI of BroadLight. "Our incumbency position in all ITU-T PON deployments helped us in directing our design effort to bring state-of-the-art and highly integrated SoC solutions.”
The TIA circuit includes a TIA stage, a limiter-amplifier and a DC restoration loop. The invention allows enhanced distance between Central Office (OLT) and Customer Premises Equipment (ONT), helping to consolidate central office space and power.
“BroadLight has always been focused on improving our PON end-to-end design and put a special effort on innovative burst mode technology implementation, leveraging our leadership position in the PON IC market,” said Igor Elkanovich, VP VLSI of BroadLight. "Our incumbency position in all ITU-T PON deployments helped us in directing our design effort to bring state-of-the-art and highly integrated SoC solutions.”
Intel technology, processing power key to TV revolution
INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, SAN FRANCISCO, USA: The television, both the device and the experience, has arrived at an inflection point. In keynote addresses today at the Intel Developer Forum, Intel executives Eric Kim and Justin Rattner discussed what happens and what's needed when the full Internet converges with broadcast networks.
The executives laid out the opportunities, both short- and long-term, to make the TV experience more visual, more personal and more interactive.
Kim, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Home Group, took the wraps off the Intel Atom processor CE4100, the newest system-on-chip (SoC) in a family of consumer electronics (CE) media processors, and announced efforts with several key industry players including Adobe, CBS, Cisco and TransGaming which are helping to make the vision of interactive TV a reality in the short-term.
"At the center of the TV evolution is more processing power, which we deliver with the CE4100 media processor, built on the Intel Atom core and optimized for IPTV digital set-tops, connected media players and digital TVs," said Kim. "With its performance and high-resolution graphics capabilities, CE manufacturers and software developers now have a platform for real innovation."
According to Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer and Senior Fellow, that innovation will accelerate in the next few years.
"By the year 2015, you can expect 15 billion consumer devices capable of delivering TV content with billions of hours of video available," said Rattner. "We'll need much more sophisticated ways to organize content and provide it on demand. Intel Labs researchers are working on evolving technology so people can get the TV content they want, when they want it and wherever they want it."
3D, advanced graphics and more
As consumer devices deliver more and more TV content, developers will need to blend together video, 3-D animation and rich graphics. And in turn, the importance of graphics and audio/video decoding in CE platforms becomes increasingly critical.
Kim disclosed that Intel and Adobe Systems are working together to port Adobe Flash Player 10, a key tool for content developers, to the new family of SoC media processors. This will result in future CE devices that are optimized for playback of graphics and H.264 video to enable for the first time a wide array of Flash Player 10-based applications on the television.
Rattner predicted that high-quality 3-D video will someday soon be consumed in the privacy of your own living room. Onstage, he spoke to a life-size 3-D version of 3ality Digital CTO Howard Postley about the intense computation and bandwidth required for capturing and managing 3-D TV in real time.
Both executives discussed how a new high-speed optical I/O technology from Intel, codenamed "Light Peak," will improve bandwidth and flexibility while greatly reducing complexity and cost for PC users downloading videos and other digital media. Postley said 50 copper-based cables on the set of a 3-D shoot today could be replaced with a single optical cable with Light Peak technology. In addition to its extreme speed, Light Peak technology has the unique ability to simultaneously transport multiple existing I/O protocols.
Personal TV, intelligent networks
With the massive amount of TV content delivered digitally today and in the future, personalization is critical. TV Network CBS developed a TV Widget, or small Internet application, to help viewers find and connect to premium content in a more customized manner. TV Widgets are made possible by the performance of Intel CE media processors and Widget Channel, a software development framework.
Delivering interactive product placements, games and on-demand video on non-traditional TVs, such as digital connected CE devices, will require innovation in how that content is actually distributed from TV service providers.
Joining Kim on stage was Malachy Moynihan, Cisco's vice president of video product strategy, Service Provider Video Technology Group, to discuss how the company is helping service providers evolve their current networks to a medianet, which integrates the best elements of the existing broadcast infrastructure with carrier-grade IP networks to provide such new services as unified video experience.
The executives laid out the opportunities, both short- and long-term, to make the TV experience more visual, more personal and more interactive.
Kim, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Home Group, took the wraps off the Intel Atom processor CE4100, the newest system-on-chip (SoC) in a family of consumer electronics (CE) media processors, and announced efforts with several key industry players including Adobe, CBS, Cisco and TransGaming which are helping to make the vision of interactive TV a reality in the short-term.
"At the center of the TV evolution is more processing power, which we deliver with the CE4100 media processor, built on the Intel Atom core and optimized for IPTV digital set-tops, connected media players and digital TVs," said Kim. "With its performance and high-resolution graphics capabilities, CE manufacturers and software developers now have a platform for real innovation."
According to Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer and Senior Fellow, that innovation will accelerate in the next few years.
"By the year 2015, you can expect 15 billion consumer devices capable of delivering TV content with billions of hours of video available," said Rattner. "We'll need much more sophisticated ways to organize content and provide it on demand. Intel Labs researchers are working on evolving technology so people can get the TV content they want, when they want it and wherever they want it."
3D, advanced graphics and more
As consumer devices deliver more and more TV content, developers will need to blend together video, 3-D animation and rich graphics. And in turn, the importance of graphics and audio/video decoding in CE platforms becomes increasingly critical.
Kim disclosed that Intel and Adobe Systems are working together to port Adobe Flash Player 10, a key tool for content developers, to the new family of SoC media processors. This will result in future CE devices that are optimized for playback of graphics and H.264 video to enable for the first time a wide array of Flash Player 10-based applications on the television.
Rattner predicted that high-quality 3-D video will someday soon be consumed in the privacy of your own living room. Onstage, he spoke to a life-size 3-D version of 3ality Digital CTO Howard Postley about the intense computation and bandwidth required for capturing and managing 3-D TV in real time.
Both executives discussed how a new high-speed optical I/O technology from Intel, codenamed "Light Peak," will improve bandwidth and flexibility while greatly reducing complexity and cost for PC users downloading videos and other digital media. Postley said 50 copper-based cables on the set of a 3-D shoot today could be replaced with a single optical cable with Light Peak technology. In addition to its extreme speed, Light Peak technology has the unique ability to simultaneously transport multiple existing I/O protocols.
Personal TV, intelligent networks
With the massive amount of TV content delivered digitally today and in the future, personalization is critical. TV Network CBS developed a TV Widget, or small Internet application, to help viewers find and connect to premium content in a more customized manner. TV Widgets are made possible by the performance of Intel CE media processors and Widget Channel, a software development framework.
Delivering interactive product placements, games and on-demand video on non-traditional TVs, such as digital connected CE devices, will require innovation in how that content is actually distributed from TV service providers.
Joining Kim on stage was Malachy Moynihan, Cisco's vice president of video product strategy, Service Provider Video Technology Group, to discuss how the company is helping service providers evolve their current networks to a medianet, which integrates the best elements of the existing broadcast infrastructure with carrier-grade IP networks to provide such new services as unified video experience.
Intel unveils 45nm SoC for Internet TV
INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Intel Corp. today unveiled the Intel Atom processor CE4100, the newest SoC in a family of media processors designed to bring Internet content and services to digital TVs, DVD players and advanced set-top boxes.
The CE4100 processor, formerly codenamed "Sodaville," is the first 45nm-manufactured consumer electronics (CE) SoC based on Intel architecture. It supports Internet and broadcast applications on one chip, and has the processing power and audio/video components necessary to run rich media applications such as 3-D graphics.
"Traditional broadcast networks are quickly shifting from a linear model to a multi-stream, Internet-optimized model to offer consumers digital entertainment that complements the TV such as social networking, 3-D gaming and streaming video," said Eric Kim, senior vice president and general manager, Intel Digital Home Group. "At the center of the TV evolution is the CE4100 media processor, a new architecture that meets the critical requirements for connected CE devices."
CE industry rallies around Intel CE media processors
Joining Kim on stage during his keynote were executives from Adobe Systems, BBC (British Broadcast Company), CBS, Cisco and TransGaming. These and other companies are working with Intel to advance content, services and infrastructure for connected CE devices.
As TVs become more interactive, Adobe Flash is an important enabling technology to help content developers blend together video, 3-D animation and rich graphics. Intel is working with Adobe to port Adobe Flash Player 10 to the family of Intel CE media processors to optimize the playback of graphics and H.264 video to enable for the first time a wide array of Flash-based content on the television.
"The architecture of Intel media processors provides a powerful and innovative platform to showcase Flash-based applications in a vivid way," said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president, Platform Business Unit at Adobe.
"Flash Player 10 combined with the performance of the Intel media processor and its support for standards such as OpenGL ES 2.0 offers a compelling environment for Flash-based games, videos and other rich Web content and applications." The companies expect Adobe Flash Player 10 to be available in the first half of 2010 for Intel media processor-based CE devices.
Malachy Moynihan, vice president for video product strategy, Cisco Service Provider Video Technology Group, discussed how delivering premium video to the TV will require intelligent networks and content storage.
"Cisco is helping service providers evolve their networks to a medianet, integrating the best elements of the existing broadcast infrastructure with carrier-grade IP networks to provide new services like unified video experience," said Moynihan.
"The crucial components to enable a unified video experience include the need for an emerging monetization model across the video ecosystem as well as client devices with quality graphics and a high-performance processor to truly enhance the visual appeal for consumers."
On-demand gaming for TV
TransGaming President and CEO Vikas Gupta announced an on-demand gaming service called GameTree.tv to be optimized for connected digital TVs and CE devices powered by Intel media processors.
"At TransGaming, we're in the business of enabling existing games to operate on alternative operating systems," said Gupta. "Since Intel CE processors run on Intel architecture, it's a fast and easy migration from the PC to the CE platform."
The GameTree.tv service will offer a broad library of games such as sports, action and adventure and provide content developers with a software development kit to support the migration of existing games and the development of new games based on the Intel CE platform. It will help revolutionize the delivery and global consumption of video games and provide a turnkey monetization strategy for CE manufacturers and cable/satellite providers (MSOs).
TV widgets, interactive TV applications
Intel CE media processors provide a full-featured software framework called Widget Channel for the development of Internet applications, or TV widgets. Broadcast networks such as CBS are expanding the gallery of TV widgets to help their viewers find and connect to premium content in a more personalized manner.
"Navigation is the No. 1 challenge for today's television viewers," said George Schweitzer, president, CBS Marketing. "Intel's CE technology and our new TV Widget platform are designed to help people find the shows they want and discover new programs that are relevant to their interests. What's more, the TV Widget gives us another platform to connect and interact with our audience while delivering an exciting new television experience."
Intel is working with the industry to expand Widget Channel to provide consumers a range of services such as movies, music, games and personal videos. TV Widgets and services shown at IDF were from Accedo Broadband*, The Associated Press*, BIGSTAR.tv*, CBS*, CinemaNow*, Dailymotion*, Immediatek*, Mediafly, MyVideo*, Netflix*, PlayJam*, RadioTime*, RallyPoint*, ShowTime Networks*, Tagesschau* and WhereverTV.*
Intel Atom processor CE4100
The CE4100 processor can deliver speeds up to 1.2GHz while offering lower power and a small footprint to help decrease system costs. It is backward compatible with the Intel Media Processor CE 3100 and features Intel Precision View Technology, a display processing engine to support high-definition picture quality and Intel Media Play Technology for seamless audio and video.
It also supports hardware decode of up to two 1080p video streams and advanced 3-D graphics and audio standards. To provide OEMs flexibility in their product offerings, new features were added such as hardware decode for MPEG4 video that is ready for DivX Home Theater 3.0 certification, an integrated NAND flash controller, support for both DDR2 and DDR3 memory and 512K L2 cache.
The CE SoC contains a display processor, graphics processor, video display controller, transport processor, a dedicated security processor and general I/O including SATA-300 and USB 2.0.
The CE4100 processor, formerly codenamed "Sodaville," is the first 45nm-manufactured consumer electronics (CE) SoC based on Intel architecture. It supports Internet and broadcast applications on one chip, and has the processing power and audio/video components necessary to run rich media applications such as 3-D graphics.
"Traditional broadcast networks are quickly shifting from a linear model to a multi-stream, Internet-optimized model to offer consumers digital entertainment that complements the TV such as social networking, 3-D gaming and streaming video," said Eric Kim, senior vice president and general manager, Intel Digital Home Group. "At the center of the TV evolution is the CE4100 media processor, a new architecture that meets the critical requirements for connected CE devices."
CE industry rallies around Intel CE media processors
Joining Kim on stage during his keynote were executives from Adobe Systems, BBC (British Broadcast Company), CBS, Cisco and TransGaming. These and other companies are working with Intel to advance content, services and infrastructure for connected CE devices.
As TVs become more interactive, Adobe Flash is an important enabling technology to help content developers blend together video, 3-D animation and rich graphics. Intel is working with Adobe to port Adobe Flash Player 10 to the family of Intel CE media processors to optimize the playback of graphics and H.264 video to enable for the first time a wide array of Flash-based content on the television.
"The architecture of Intel media processors provides a powerful and innovative platform to showcase Flash-based applications in a vivid way," said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president, Platform Business Unit at Adobe.
"Flash Player 10 combined with the performance of the Intel media processor and its support for standards such as OpenGL ES 2.0 offers a compelling environment for Flash-based games, videos and other rich Web content and applications." The companies expect Adobe Flash Player 10 to be available in the first half of 2010 for Intel media processor-based CE devices.
Malachy Moynihan, vice president for video product strategy, Cisco Service Provider Video Technology Group, discussed how delivering premium video to the TV will require intelligent networks and content storage.
"Cisco is helping service providers evolve their networks to a medianet, integrating the best elements of the existing broadcast infrastructure with carrier-grade IP networks to provide new services like unified video experience," said Moynihan.
"The crucial components to enable a unified video experience include the need for an emerging monetization model across the video ecosystem as well as client devices with quality graphics and a high-performance processor to truly enhance the visual appeal for consumers."
On-demand gaming for TV
TransGaming President and CEO Vikas Gupta announced an on-demand gaming service called GameTree.tv to be optimized for connected digital TVs and CE devices powered by Intel media processors.
"At TransGaming, we're in the business of enabling existing games to operate on alternative operating systems," said Gupta. "Since Intel CE processors run on Intel architecture, it's a fast and easy migration from the PC to the CE platform."
The GameTree.tv service will offer a broad library of games such as sports, action and adventure and provide content developers with a software development kit to support the migration of existing games and the development of new games based on the Intel CE platform. It will help revolutionize the delivery and global consumption of video games and provide a turnkey monetization strategy for CE manufacturers and cable/satellite providers (MSOs).
TV widgets, interactive TV applications
Intel CE media processors provide a full-featured software framework called Widget Channel for the development of Internet applications, or TV widgets. Broadcast networks such as CBS are expanding the gallery of TV widgets to help their viewers find and connect to premium content in a more personalized manner.
"Navigation is the No. 1 challenge for today's television viewers," said George Schweitzer, president, CBS Marketing. "Intel's CE technology and our new TV Widget platform are designed to help people find the shows they want and discover new programs that are relevant to their interests. What's more, the TV Widget gives us another platform to connect and interact with our audience while delivering an exciting new television experience."
Intel is working with the industry to expand Widget Channel to provide consumers a range of services such as movies, music, games and personal videos. TV Widgets and services shown at IDF were from Accedo Broadband*, The Associated Press*, BIGSTAR.tv*, CBS*, CinemaNow*, Dailymotion*, Immediatek*, Mediafly, MyVideo*, Netflix*, PlayJam*, RadioTime*, RallyPoint*, ShowTime Networks*, Tagesschau* and WhereverTV.*
Intel Atom processor CE4100
The CE4100 processor can deliver speeds up to 1.2GHz while offering lower power and a small footprint to help decrease system costs. It is backward compatible with the Intel Media Processor CE 3100 and features Intel Precision View Technology, a display processing engine to support high-definition picture quality and Intel Media Play Technology for seamless audio and video.
It also supports hardware decode of up to two 1080p video streams and advanced 3-D graphics and audio standards. To provide OEMs flexibility in their product offerings, new features were added such as hardware decode for MPEG4 video that is ready for DivX Home Theater 3.0 certification, an integrated NAND flash controller, support for both DDR2 and DDR3 memory and 512K L2 cache.
The CE SoC contains a display processor, graphics processor, video display controller, transport processor, a dedicated security processor and general I/O including SATA-300 and USB 2.0.
Cypress’s EZ-Color HBLED controller family enables fast design for WAC Lighting
SAN JOSE, USA: Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced that WAC Lighting, a leading manufacturer and designer of track, recessed, undercabinet, decorative and monorail lighting, has selected Cypress’s EZ-Color high-brightness LED (HBLED) controllers to control the LEDs in its new color-changing tape light system.
Based on Cypress’s flexible PSoC programmable system-on-chip, the EZ-Color solution enabled WAC Lighting designers to quickly introduce the energy-efficient INVISILED PALETTE system to the display and accent lighting markets.
INVISILED PALETTE uses the CY8CLED02 EZ-Color controller to manage red, green and blue diodes to create unique color-changing capabilities. With EZ-Color’s patent-pending PrISM (Precise Illumination Signal Modulation) technology, the color changes are programmed in a constant, smooth transition with adjustable speed among the three colored diodes and can be stopped at any point for a custom color effect.
The PrISM modulation technology also significantly reduces low-frequency flicker and radiated electro-magnetic interference (EMI)—common problems in LED lighting designs.
"The Cypress EZ-Color solution provided us the flexibility and ease-of-use of the PSOC architecture while integrating the color mixing algorithms we required for our INVISILED PALETTE system,” said Shelley Wang, President of WAC Lighting and the 2009 recipient of the Residential Lighting Industry Leadership Award. "The smooth color-changing effects of the EZ-Color solution help PALETTE stand out from the competition.”
“WAC Lighting’s innovative LED lighting systems are a great showcase for Cypress’s EZ-Color family,” said Curtis Davis, vice president of Cypress’s PowerPSoC Division. “The PALETTE system shows how our EZ-Color solution streamlines design with HBLEDs while also bringing smart lighting effects to the market.”
Based on Cypress’s flexible PSoC programmable system-on-chip, the EZ-Color solution enabled WAC Lighting designers to quickly introduce the energy-efficient INVISILED PALETTE system to the display and accent lighting markets.
INVISILED PALETTE uses the CY8CLED02 EZ-Color controller to manage red, green and blue diodes to create unique color-changing capabilities. With EZ-Color’s patent-pending PrISM (Precise Illumination Signal Modulation) technology, the color changes are programmed in a constant, smooth transition with adjustable speed among the three colored diodes and can be stopped at any point for a custom color effect.
The PrISM modulation technology also significantly reduces low-frequency flicker and radiated electro-magnetic interference (EMI)—common problems in LED lighting designs.
"The Cypress EZ-Color solution provided us the flexibility and ease-of-use of the PSOC architecture while integrating the color mixing algorithms we required for our INVISILED PALETTE system,” said Shelley Wang, President of WAC Lighting and the 2009 recipient of the Residential Lighting Industry Leadership Award. "The smooth color-changing effects of the EZ-Color solution help PALETTE stand out from the competition.”
“WAC Lighting’s innovative LED lighting systems are a great showcase for Cypress’s EZ-Color family,” said Curtis Davis, vice president of Cypress’s PowerPSoC Division. “The PALETTE system shows how our EZ-Color solution streamlines design with HBLEDs while also bringing smart lighting effects to the market.”
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