Atmel LED Driver Technology Smart LED Power Management for Efficiency, Programmability and Scalability Atmel LED Driver Technology Atmel® LED drivers offer systemcentric, mixed-signal LED driver ICs for the backlighting and solid-state lighting markets. This broad-based and rapidly growing market includes LCD TVs, PC monitors, specialty panels (industrial, military, medical, avionics, etc.) and general illumination (commercial, residential, industrial and government). Our LED drivers utilize a proprietary and patented combination of analog and digital circuit techniques. The products provide solutions for local and global dimming, power manage ment, signal conditioning and smart interfacing. Using these drivers, elec tronic equipment manufacturers can significantly enhance product features, while improving power efficiency, reliability and cost/performance. Multi-string Solution Our compact, high-power LED drivers are ideal for multi LED string appli cations such as direct backlight/edge-lit LCD panels and high-brightness solidstate lighting applications. The LED drivers consist of three product families: • The highest integration LED driver family offers internal boost controller and internal current control MOSFET to sink up to 30mA per string. These devices can drive up to 6 strings with up to 12 white LEDs per string, for a total of 72 LEDs per device, scalable up to 4 devices. These solutions address the design simplicity, small BOM and internal digital compensation requirements of the notebook, industrial and medical LCD panel markets. • The second LED driver family offers efficiency, power, controllability and programmability, all in one compact solution. These devices adaptively control the DC-DC/AC-DC converters that power the LED strings, using Atmel’s Efficiency Optimizer technology. These Efficiency Optimizers minimize power consumption while maintaining LED current accuracy. The high-power LED string drivers use internal current control MOSFETs to sink up to 100mA per string, and can drive 16 parallel strings of 10 white LEDs each, for a total of 160 white LEDs per device. Sixteen interconnected devices control up to 2,560 white LEDs. Each string can be controlled individually to enable area (zone) dimming for highest dynamic range and significantly reduced power usage. These devices address direct backlight LCD panels and monitor applications. • The third LED driver family also features Efficiency Optimizer technology, but uses external current control MOSFETs to sink up to 1A per string. The devices can drive up to eight parallel strings of LEDs and offer fault detection and management of open-circuit and short-circuit LEDs. These devices address the edge-lit and high-brightness solid-state lighting appli cations which require higher power as well as dimming via either external PWM signals or an analog current adjustable with an internal 8-bit DAC. Typical Application Circuit for RGB Lighting/Backlighting VOIT VOIT Blue LED String DC-DC Converter FB VOIT Green LED String DC-DC Converter RtopR D3 CMPSH-3 FB Red LED String DC-DC Converter RtopR D2 CMPSH-3 RbottomR RtopR FB D1 CMPSH-3 RbottomR GND RbottomR GND GND C1 1µF VDD C1 1µF +5V GND GND RILED ENABLE 35k 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 GND GND GND N/C ILED EN VIN VDD FB11 FB01 FB12 FB02 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 VSYNC HSYNC PWM FB13 FB03 CGND PHI GSC PWN STR0 STR1 STR2 STR3 MSL3162 N/C AD0 SDA SCL AD1 FLTB STR15 STR14 STR13 STR12 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 STR11 STR10 STR9 STR8 CGND GND STR7 STR6 STR5 STR4 EP 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 GND GND GND FLTB SCL SDAL 2 © 2012 / www.atmel.com Atmel LED Driver Technology Smart LED Power Management for Efficiency, Programmability and Scalability Efficiency Optimizer Programmability The Efficiency Optimizer technology consists of propri etary circuitry which controls a wide range of different architectures of external DC/DC and AC/DC converters. Multiple drivers in a system communicate with each other in real time to select an optimized operating voltage for the LEDs. This allows you to design the power supply for the worst case LED forward voltage (Vf) without worrying about excessive power dissipation issues. An on-chip E2PROM holds all the default control register values. At power-up, the data in the E2PROM automatically copies directly to the control registers, setting up the device for operation. Scalability A number of LED drivers feature a 20MHz SPI serial interface, or 1MHz I2C serial interface. Both interfaces support video frame-by-frame LED string intensity control for up to 16 interconnected devices to allow active area dimming. The devices include an advanced PWM engine that easily synchronizes to a video signal, and per-string phase adjustment to reduce unwanted LCD artifacts such as motion blur. During the start-up sequence, the LED drivers auto matically reduce the power supply voltage to the minimum voltage required to keep the LEDs in current regulation. The devices can be configured to periodically perform this optimization to compensate for changes in the LED forward voltage, and to assure continued optimum power savings. Atmel LED Driver Parametric Table Atmel’s LED Driver lcs Dimming Strings Part Number MSL1060 MSL1061 MSL1064 Application Notebooks, Industrial and Medical DC/ DC EO Boost # - internal 1.1MHz 6 1 4 MSL2042 1 4 MSL2100 MSL3082 3 1 External 8 8 MSL3085 1 8 MSL2160 3 16 MSL3162 3 16 3 16 3 16 MSL3163 Direct Backlight MSL3164 External MSL3165A 1 MSL3166A 1 16 1 16 MSL3168 1 16 MSL4164 1 16 MSL3167 Monitor Istr String Current Matching Max Fault Detec Global Per String String PWM Global - MSL2041 Edgelit and Solid State Lighting FETs # of LEDs Per String 16 Internal 30mA 12 1.5% OC, SC 4 bits +R 2.2% External 1A DENR 1.0% OC, SC 100mA 10 30mA 60mA 3% OC, SC 8 bits String Phasing External VSYNC Interface - - - PWM - - - I2C - - - - - - - Auto =PWM 4 PWM - - Auto =PWM PWM - 8 bits Yes I2C - 8 bits Yes I2C - 12 bits Yes I2C - R 1.5% Internal 4 bits +R - Per String 8 bits - 8 bits - 12 bits 12 bits Yes SPI R 8 bits 6 bits 8 bits 8 bits Yes I2C 8 bits +R 8 bits 8 bits 12 bits 12 bits Yes I2C 8 bits +R 8 bits 8 bits 12 bits 12 bits Yes SPI R - - PWM - =PWM PWM I2C R - - PWM Auto =PWM PWM I2C R - - PWM - =PWM PWM I2C R - - PWM Auto =PWM PWM I2C R - - PWM Auto =PWM PWM I2C EO=Effeciency Optimizer, DENR=Determine by External NFET Ratings, OC=Open Circuit, SC=Short Circuit, R=External Resistor Atmel LED Driver Technology 3 Atmel LED Driver Technology Smart LED Power Management for Efficiency, Programmability and Scalability Atmel Corporation 1600 Technology Drive, San Jose, CA 95110 USA T: (+1)(408) 441-0311 F: (+1)(408) 487-2600 | www.atmel.com © 2012 Atmel Corporation. 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