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Microchip Technology Inc.

Thin-lite Corporation

Aegis Technologies, Inc.

Steven Schlanger

Mark J Palmer

Randy L Yach

Scott Clifford

Alex Scott Walters

Vincent Potenzone

Matthew Trotter

Dexter May

Lillian Cross-Szymanek

An LED lighting control system incorporating a control IC for fast control of LED current in a switching Buck-type power supply through dedicated power supply control hardware with slow changing signals of temperature and input under control of firmware. The control IC optimizes the use of power from the source and optimizes the operating efficiency of the LED output while providing for a plurality of LED devices to be powered in parallel by a single controller.

LED light source with multiple independent control inputs and interoperability

A traffic barricade light is described. A housing comprises a collar, a bottom side, a height, a width and a depth. The housing is divided along an axis positioned within the depth. The housing comprises at least two angled walls on opposing shoulders of the housing within the depth at an oblique angle relative to the bottom side of the housing. Each angled wall comprises a recess and a passage from the recess to a compartment within the housing. A solar panel is coupled to each angled wall. The solar panels are electrically coupled in parallel with each other and with at least one rechargeable battery stored within the housing. A regulator circuit is electrically coupled between the at least two solar panels and the at least one rechargeable battery. A light source is electrically coupled to the battery. A lens is coupled to the collar.

Traffic barricade light

The present invention relates generally to functional pathway configurations at the interfaces between integrated circuits (ICs) and the circuit assemblies with which the ICs communicate. More particularly, the present invention relates generally to the functional pathway configuration at the interface between a semiconductor device (e.g., computer chips like microcontrollers, microprocessors, application specific integrated circuits (ASIC), programmable gate arrays (PGA) and other devices and/or combinations thereof) and the circuitry of a system including the chip. Even more particularly, the present invention relates to a 14-pin microcontroller functional pathway configuration for the interface between the microcontroller and a system in which the microcontroller is embedded to support infrared communications.

Functional pathway configuration at a system/IC interface

A bistable memory device changes logic state each time an event occurs. The bistable memory device has an logic output coupled to a digital processor input. The digital processor reads the logic state of the bistable memory device from its logic output and compares the logic state read to a stored previous logic state obtained from a previous read. If the logic state read and the stored previous logic state are the same, then no event has occurred during the time between the read and previous read of the logic states of the bistable memory device. If different, then an event has occurred during the time between the read and previous read of the logic states of the bistable memory device. The event detection may be used in combination with a digital system communicating by serial digital data transmissions.

Event detection with a digital processor

A communications controller may be programmed to store an identification code (identification data string) for a produce device in a non-volatile read/write memory, e.g., an electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM), FLASH memory, etc. The identification string may be generic or unique for the device and may be programmed before, during or after manufacture of the device. In addition, the identification string may be reprogrammed whenever a change is made to the device, e.g., after an upgrade.

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Steven Schlanger