COLOR KINETICS INTRODUCES CHROMASIC™
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Color Kinetics continues to set new standards in intelligent LED illumination with the unveiling of Chromasic™ -- a custom designed microchip that integrates power, communications and control to enable next-generation digital lighting systems and networks. An engineering feat designed by Color Kinetics Chief Technology Officer Dr. Ihor Lys, Chromasic will become the "brain" of future LED lighting systems that make possible a host of previously unimaginable applications.
Chromasic combines digital LED control and communication technology in a single silicon chip, enabling a highly controllable lamp that requires as few as four components to generate 64 billion color combinations within the space of a pencil eraser. The device can be used in numerous system configurations and creates whole new possibilities for both small and large-scale installations, even those that comprise many thousands of individual light nodes - each now equipped with the intelligence to be automatically addressed and controlled.
Chromasic advances the state of the art in LED illumination with the following benefits:
- Compact size: Reduces the size of a single, controllable point of colored light by reducing the number of necessary components and the physical size of an LED node. In its raw form, the Chromasic chip is comparable in size to the head of a pin!
- Cost effectiveness: Integrates numerous functions into a single low-cost chip, bringing down the unit cost.
- Ease of use: Applies a CK-developed toolkit of libraries and application software for users to easily identify lights, automatically map lights, and facilitate the creation of sophisticated effects that would be intractable with traditional lighting controllers.
- Granularity of control: Enables a previously unachievable degree of control flexibility, including the construction of lighting networks that range from hundreds of thousands of nodes to just a few - and ranging from simple monochromatic intensity to a vast spectrum of 64 billion colors.
- Efficiency: Leverages drive electronics optimized specifically to reduce power consumption.
- Self-addressing: Eliminates the need to manually address individual nodes by placing the addressing mechanism within the chip itself.
- Self-clocking: Requires just three wires to operate, accommodating a wide range of data rates, and avoids the use of additional parts such as oscillators and clocks that are typically used in digital circuitry.
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A custom designed microchip that integrates power, communications and control to enable next-generation digital lighting systems and networks.
Availability
Chromasic technology is covered by U.S. and foreign patents and patents pending as part of Color Kinetics' growing intellectual property portfolio. Next-generation products based on Chromasic may be available by the end of 2003.
About Color Kinetics
Color Kinetics Incorporated is the pioneer of intelligent solid-state illumination technologies. The company designs, manufactures and markets an award-winning line of products that apply the practical and aesthetic benefits of LEDs to transcend the limits of traditional light sources for use in professional, consumer, and OEM and licensing applications. Its flagship line of technologies leverage a patented layer of digital intelligence, called Chromacore®, to generate and control millions of colors and dynamic lighting effects. Color Kinetics leads the industry in solid-state lighting innovation, including the custom engineered Chromasic® microchip, and holds a growing patent portfolio encompassing a number of emerging digital technologies. Founded in 1997, the company is privately held and is headquartered in Boston, MA with offices in the UK, China, and a joint venture in Japan. More information can be found at http://www.colorkinetics.com.
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