Date: 31/08/2010

New LED lighting architecture from National semiconductor

National Semiconductor has added LED lighting designer tool called 'WEBENCH LED Architect' to its online power supply design tool set called WEBENCH Designer tools. WEBENCH helps design engineers to create a reliable power supply circuit over the internet in short duration by using National's ICs and devices.

The newly added WEBENCH LED Architect can be used to create multiple sets of LED lighting designs and compare them across for efficacy, size, and cost up to 100,000 lumens in light output.

National says to start a design, the designer enters desired light output (lumens) and adjusts the design with the unique WEBENCH Optimizer Dial, evaluating size, conversion efficiency and cost trade-offs. The designer can order components for prototyping, share the complete system with others, or easily print a complete project report including schematics, bill of materials (BOM) and performance characteristics.

National is talking about it's WEBENCH LED Architect at these upcoming events:

Strategies in Light Europe, Frankfurt, Germany - Sept. 27-29, 2010
EDN Designing with LEDs, Chicago, IL - Sept. 29, 2010
China Solid-State Lighting Conference, Shanghai, China - Oct. 14-16, 2010

"We are enabling creative designers to compare a hundred different topologies for a lighting system in a few minutes," said Phil Gibson, vice president of Technical Sales Tools at National Semiconductor. "WEBENCH LED Architect frees their imagination, so they can deliver brilliant lighting designs at the lowest possible cost."

For more information visit: www.national.com