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International Rectifier Lighting Control IC Wins Product of the Year Award
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. January 2005 - For the third year running, an innovative power management solution from International Rectifier, IR® (NYSE: IRF), has been selected a Product of the Year by Electronic Products magazine. Editors selected the International Rectifier IR2161 adaptive technology halogen lamp transformer control IC, a single-chip solution specifically designed for electronic transformers that drive low-voltage halogen lamps.
Integrating all functions into a single 8-pin package, the IR2161 can adapt to changing supply voltage, frequency and lamp conditions, enabling the introduction of highly reliable halogen transformers while streamlining their design and manufacture. Adaptive deadtime control is a key feature of the IR2161, increasing transformer reliability by continually maintaining soft switching, regardless of external conditions.
Another core feature is International Rectifier's high-voltage junction isolation technology on which the IC is based. This proprietary technology allows high-voltage circuits to be isolated from low-voltage circuitry, so that both high- and low-side drive functions can be housed on a single, compact chip for controlling various switching converter topologies. Since halogen lighting requires both high- and low-voltage circuits to function, components made with IR's HVJI technology are particularly well-suited to the application.
"The IR2161 has been well received by the market, and it is an honor to receive this recognition from the editors at Electronic Products. This lighting IC is a great example of our ability to bring together an array of technologies and techniques to respond to some of the toughest power management challenges facing engineers today. IR's combination of adaptive control techniques and proprietary high-voltage junction-isolation silicon found in the IR2161 deliver a simple and superior solution to lighting manufacturers," said David Tam, International Rectifier Vice President, Consumer and Industrial Sector Business.
The IR2161 joins the previous International Rectifier Product of the Year winners from Electronic Products magazine: The XPhase™ chip set for multiphase, interleaved DC-DC buck converters (2003), and the DirectFET® power MOSFET (2002).
The editors at Electronic Products chose this year's winners based on significant advances in technology or its application, innovation in design, or a substantial gain in price and performance. The winners will be printed in the January 2005 issue of Electronic Products magazine. Hearst Business Communications, Inc., Garden City, New York, publishes Electronic Products, The Engineer's Magazine of Product Technology.
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