NXP: Leading lighting solutions and their target applications


Recently, Mr. Zhang Xiliang, senior marketing manager of NXP's multi-market product division in Greater China, held a new product launch of NXP's innovative lighting technology for NXP's new technology CFL and SSL products, introducing the current market trends in lighting technology and the leading NXP leadership. Lighting solutions and their target applications.



Zhang Xiliang, Senior Marketing Manager, Multimarket Products, Greater China, NXP Semiconductors

Incandescent lamps are on a downward trend. CFL is on a strong upward trend but also encounters technical bottlenecks.

From the perspective of the development trend of the global lighting market, the application of incandescent lamps has been declining in recent years, CFL is in a strong rising period (2007-2012), LED lighting is beginning to develop, and HF-TL and HID are developing.

In general, energy-saving CFL is the mainstream of current applications, the market prospect is broad, countries around the world are gradually banned incandescent bulbs, and CFL has obvious energy-saving advantages, for the same light output, the current CFL power consumption is only incandescent 1 /5, and the life expectancy is 8-15 times that of incandescent lamps. It is therefore very popular in the civil and commercial sectors. According to Datapoint Research, the annual sales of various CFL products are expected to exceed 5 billion units by 2012. Although the compact fluorescent lamp CFL is the most familiar energy-saving lighting product for consumers, it has been sold in stores for many years, but the specific products are still very different.

Zhang Xiliang said that CFL has a strong upward trend from 2007 to 2012, but consumers are often dissatisfied with the cost of CFL and some of its technical limitations. For example, lamps need a long warm-up time to reach the highest brightness, and The dimmer is not compatible, and the white light it produces gives a "cold" feel. The quality of low-end CFLs is also uneven, which further leads to consumer dissatisfaction.

A new breakthrough in energy-saving lamps: deep dimming, fast warm-up life of more than 15,000 hours

"The NXP2028 NXP2028 brings an innovative consumer experience to compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and is a new breakthrough in the field of energy-saving lamps, featuring deep dimming and fast warm-up. The UBA2028 has a feature called 'True Tuning Light', which is the deep dimming function. The dimming range is very large, and the minimum can be adjusted to 10% of the total light intensity. Fast preheating and unprecedented dimming ability make fluorescent lamps have superior performance against incandescent lamps. Quality. NXP's latest CFL driver chip represents the highest level of similar integrated products on the market today, helping to further optimize compact designs, improve power conversion efficiency, and achieve an ultra-long CFL life of more than 15,000 hours."

NXP has an extensive line of lighting solutions, with a complete line of control and driver chips that meet the requirements of the most innovative companies in the world, and the UBA2028 is the newest addition to this series. "NXP's control and driver ICs for CFLs can help manufacturers solve many problems, such as significantly reducing lamp start-up time, enabling high-efficiency deep dimming, extending lamp life and improving price/performance."


LED is the first choice for medium and long-term energy-efficient lighting, but it is still difficult to replace incandescent lamps.

Despite the rapid development of CFL, in the long run, solid-state lighting based on light-emitting diodes (LED) is widely considered to be the first choice for medium- and long-term energy-efficient lighting, and its energy efficiency is expected to reach 10 times that of incandescent lamps.

SSL is ready to use, dimmable, and delivers pleasant colors. In addition, it can create new lighting effects with vivid colors.

At present, the use of SSL mainly lies in architectural lighting, decorative lighting and effect lighting, as well as special applications such as traffic signals and refrigerator lighting. In order to make SSL a mainstream technology, further efforts are needed on light output, efficiency and cost. It is expected that progress will be made in the near future, and many industry observers expect that the SSL solution will dominate the general lighting market in the next 5-10 years.

In February of this year, NXP Semiconductors introduced the first integrated dimmable commercial LED driver, the SSL2101. The SSL2101 can drive a variety of lighting systems with different power requirements, including LED retrofit lamps, LED modules, LED spotlights, spotlights, and LED strings for store displays. At this conference, NXP Semiconductors announced three major advances in its line of LED driver solutions: in the accelerated life test, the SSL2101 LED driver IC has a longer life and accelerated test operation compared to LEDs. The time has reached 7,000 hours and continues. It also announced the new SSL2102 for SSL LED luminaires and modules, which also integrates the mains dimming function; it is very convenient to release online design tools for SSL applications. The customer engineers used NXP's four products to design LED lighting products to improve the design and development progress. (For details, please refer to: NXP establishes a new benchmark for LED drivers)


The picture shows the incandescent lamp elimination schedule

From the development of the lighting market, incandescent lamps will gradually be replaced by green energy-type lighting devices. From the published incandescent lamp elimination schedule, we can see that since 2007, countries have completely eliminated incandescent lamps. When it comes to whether LED lights can completely replace incandescent lamps, Zhang Xiliang said that it is still more difficult for LED lights to completely replace incandescent lamps at present, and the main cost is higher. The cost of CFL is not too expensive compared to incandescent lamps, and the life expectancy is very long. As long as there is a good solution, CFL is a better choice at present.

Grasping key points and re-innovation technology is expected to become the preferred industry partner

Zhang Xiliang said that NXP's philosophy of serving the lighting industry is one of NXP's core strategies. As incandescent lamps exit the historical arena, energy-saving fluorescent lamps need to achieve breakthroughs in quality, performance and functionality to meet consumers' expectations of "quality lighting." With a broad product portfolio, NXP strives to create industry-leading solutions.

"NXP will use more advanced technology to solve user needs, whether it is energy-saving or economical. The ICs used by CFL will continue to use 8-inch wafer fabs to participate. In the future, the wafer size will be increased. The original 5, 6 inch is increased to 8 inches, and under the 8-inch fab production, there will be a higher starting point. The LED lamp driver IC will also be slowly used by the 8-inch fab. There will be this adjustment in itself. In addition, the CFL dimming is very important. In addition to 2028, we will slowly add the dimming technology to more ICs. Under the 8-inch fab production will be Introducing a new range of ICs to enable better solutions. LED lamps use a wider range than CFLs, so we will expand the application area in addition to traditional lighting, in terms of backlighting, Whether it is a notebook, or LCD, etc. will develop such a driver IC for customers." Zhang Xiliang revealed.

Zhang Xiliang said that looking at the interests of global consumers, NXP is willing to work with customers to improve lighting solutions. NXP will further promote the early launch of a new generation of energy-saving lamps. “In the field of LED lighting, NXP will be the preferred industry partner.”

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