SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — UBM Electronics, a UBM company and the daily source of essential business and technical information for the electronics industry‘s decision makers, today announced the lineup for EDN’s Designing With LEDs, a full day, technical seminar and workshop for design engineers. Designing with LEDs will take place on Tuesday, September 27, 2011, in conjunction with ESC Boston, at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA.

“LED technologies represent tremendous opportunities for the electronics industry,” said Margery Conner, Technical Editor, UBM Electronics’ EDN. “High-brightness (HB) LEDs save power, reduce space, and shape light into unlimited colors and places. New HB LED devices, packages, control electronics and thermal devices combine to revolutionize lighting for consumer and medical devices, automotive, architectural, and signage applications. Our workshop will provide unparalleled connections to LED manufacturers, developers, education and networking opportunities.”

The hands-on workshop was created for design engineers and systems architects who need to learn and explore drive and control electronics, optics, and thermal management options for the newest generation of solid-state illumination components. The workshop classes will provide education and training on design considerations for the power drive stage, thermal management options, and secondary optics of LED lighting, including: LED system reliability, de-rating capacitors, dimming considerations, efficiency in drive stages and power factor correction, government and industry guidelines and regulations, selecting secondary optics, and system communication and networking.

Key workshop highlights:

• The extraordinary new LED light bulb from Philips Lighting, winner of the $10 million, 2011 Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize from the U.S. Department of Energy, will be on display. The groundbreaking, 10-watt, LED bulb produces light equivalent to that of a 60-watt incandescent bulb and displays unparalleled color quality, light patterns, and smooth, flicker-free dimming.
• The keynote roundtable “Intelligent Lighting” will be presented by Eric Holland, Vice President, Engineering, Lighting Sciences Group; David Ewing, CTO, Synapse Wireless; and Paul Wilson, Technical Marketing Manager, NXP, and will be moderated by Carol Lenk, CTO, SuperBulbs. The roundtable will focus on how solid-state lighting enabled by high-brightness LEDs will creep into every facet of daily life within a few years. Panelists will address the value of intelligent lights; the likely “gotchas” engineers will encounter in designing an inexpensive, ubiquitous, completely autonomous network; and the importance of power control and efficiency in a successful lighting network.
• The LED manufacturers panel “What’s the Best LED White Light Source?” will be presented by the big three LED manufacturers, Paul Scheidt, Product Manager, Cree; Marc Dyble, Product Manager, LED Products, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors; and Chad Stalker, Regional Manager, Americas, Philips Lumileds. The panel is designed to help designers understand the importance of light quality in LED design. The panelists will discuss the trade-offs in achieving color quality for white lighting; how to achieve a high CRI; and what role phosphor selection plays.
• Technical paper tracks:
  • Optics: “A Primer on LED Optics” presented by Jim O’Conner, Business Development Manager, Carclo Technical Plastics
  • Thermal: “Pulling Heat Out of the LED Light and Control Electronics” presented by Garry Wexler, Field Applications Engineer, The Bergquist Company
  • Power Control: “Looking Backward, Going Forward: Dimming control circuits for LED lights” presented by Tom Shearer, Design and Development Leader, Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.
  • Thermal: “The Role of Capacitor Derating in the Life Expectancy of High-Brightness LED Lamps” presented by Paul Lacy, Applications Engineering, Power Integrations
  • Power Control: “Understanding and Modeling Thermal, Optical, and Electrical Interactions” presented by Ron Lenk, CEO, SuperBulbs
  • Beyond Light: “Wireless control networks for enhanced lighting installations” presented by Paul Wilson, Technical Marketing Manager, NXP-Semiconductors
• Cary Eskow, Global Director of LED and Lighting Programs at Avnet Electronics, will be hosting a workshop entitled “Systems-level High-brightness LED Design… Across the Spectrum.” The session will address the challenges of designing a high-reliability HB LED system, including the interrelated visual, thermal and electrical characteristics that must be considered; as well as new devices within and outside the visual spectrum (ultraviolet and infrared) that hold potential for a wide variety of novel applications, beyond basic illumination. The workshop will include a review of the human eye, fundamental HB LED metrics and illumination terminology, and applied visible/IR/UV photobiology; as well as a walk-through of common thermal calculations.
• The “LED Driver Design for General Lighting” workshop session by International Rectifier will offer an introduction to LED driver design followed by a discussion of the different converter topologies used. Power factor correction and triac dimmer compatibility will be discussed, along with tradeoffs against efficiency and cost.
• “Lightning Talks,” a series of brief, fast-paced, editorially-selected talks focused on the newest breakthroughs in energy-efficient, smart lighting, will feature expert speakers Carol Lenk of SuperBulbs, Dan Schlitz of Ventiva, Brian Johnson of Fairchild Semiconductor and Peter DiMaso of Texas Instruments.

Sponsors of the program include: International Rectifier; Mouser Electronics; Allied Electronics; Coilcraft; The Bergquist Company; IBM; OSRAM Opto Semiconductors; Renco Electronics; Gentex Corporation; and Philips Lumileds.

For additional information or to register for EDN’s Designing With LEDs Workshop, visit: http://e.ubmelectronics.com/LED/.

For more information or sponsorship details, please contact Judy Hayes at 408.421.3799 or judy.hayes@ubm.com.

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