LED Drivers: Big Market With a Twist

Let's back up for a moment and look at the driver opportunity for IC vendors. It's not news that LEDs are seeing tremendous growth in all sorts of applications, ranging from targeted uses such as cars and street lamps, to display signage and large-scale displays, and even wide-area interior area illumination. But providing power to every LED array is the less glamorous -- but equally vital -- LED driver, which takes the DC power (usually from a rectified AC line).