Today’s popular smart phones keep raising the bar for features and functionality. A growing number of handsets now offer embedded cameras that deliver 5-Mpixel resolution or greater in an attempt to ...

Machine-vision systems use very short flashes of intense light to produce high-speed images employed in a wide variety of data-processing applications. For instance, fast-moving conveyor belts are run ...

In the cellular handset market, the inclusion of high pixel count imagers integrated into the handset is almost standard. As the resolution of these imagers increases, the need for brighter flash ...

Flash driver IC supports 5-megapixel camera applications in cellular handsets The MAX8834 is a 1.5A white-LED (WLED) flash driver IC in a tiny, 5mm2 wafer-level package (WLP). This device integrates ...

Almost every micro-based project that I have designed in the past 25 years has had a flashing LED, originally as a “health” indicator, but the feature has expanded to use as a status indicator where ...