EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — International Rectifier, IR® (NYSE: IRF), a world leader in power management technology, today announced that its IRS2530D and IRS2158D 600V control ICs for energy-efficient dimming fluorescent lighting ballast applications are named in EDN magazine’s “Hot 100 Electronic Products for 2008”.

Compiled by EDN's editors, this annual listing highlights the electronics industry's most innovative and significant products, including analog and digital ICs.

Paul Rolls, IR’s senior vice president, Worldwide Sales, said: “The IRS2530D and IRS2158D exemplify our mission to save energy through power management innovation and we thank the editors of EDN for their recognition of these industry-leading dimming control ICs.”

The IRS2530D DIM8™ is a unique dimming ballast control IC with half-bridge driver in a compact 8-pin form factor. The new device provides a competitive solution to replace inefficient incandescent bulbs in multi-level and three-way compact fluorescent lighting (CFL) applications. Requiring only several small external components, the IRS2530D significantly simplifies and shrinks circuit design and delivers a dimming system performance of up to 10 percent for compact fluorescent lamps as well as linear ballasts.

The IRS2158D 16-pin fluorescent dimming ballast control IC with half-bridge driver is designed for applications requiring dimming performance below 10 percent. Comprehensive protection features such as protection from failure of a lamp to strike, filament failures and end-of-life protection are offered making the device well suited for thin lamps including the increasingly popular T5 lamp.

More information on EDN’s Hot 100 Electronic Products for 2008 is available at http://www.edn.com.

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