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LED driver for high power machine vision flash
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FOCUS FEATURE Machine Vision Systems
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Machine vision systems use very short flashes of intense light to produce high speed images used in a wide variety of data processing applications. An LED driver for high power machine vision flash is put under the spotlight on page 22.
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