MAX16826ATJ+T Maxim Integrated Products, MAX16826ATJ+T Datasheet - Page 15

• Manufacturer Part Number: MAX16826ATJ+T
• Description: LED Drivers Programmable Four-St ring HB LED Driver w
• Manufacturer: Maxim Integrated Products

Specifications of MAX16826ATJ+T

• Lead Free Status / RoHS Status: Lead free / RoHS Compliant

rising edge of the clock. When using external synchro-
nization, the clock frequency set by RTCT must be 10%
lower than the synchronization signal frequency.
OVP limits the maximum voltage of the switching regu-
lator output for protection against overvoltage due to
circuit faults, for example a disconnected FB. Connect
OVP to the center of a resistor-divider connected
between the switching regulator output and GND to set
the output-voltage OVP limit. Typically, the OVP output
voltage limit is set higher than the load dump voltage.
Calculate the value of R15 and R16 as follows:
Or to calculate V
where R15 and R16 are shown in the Typical Application
Circuit . The internal OVP comparator compares the volt-
age at OVP with the internal reference (1.25V typ) to
decide if an overvoltage error occurs. If an overvoltage
error is detected, switching stops, the switching regula-
tor gate-drive output is latched off, and the soft-start
capacitor is discharged. The latch can only be reset by
toggling SYNC/EN, activating the I
cycling power.
The internal ADC also uses OVP to sense the switching
regulator output voltage. Output voltage measurement
information can be read back from the I
Voltage is digitized to 7-bit resolution.
When the voltage at V
age threshold (V
MAX16826 enters undervoltage lockout. V
forces the linear regulators and the switching regulator
into shutdown mode until the V
enough to allow the device to operate normally. In V
UVLO, the V
The MAX16826 contains an internal temperature sensor
that turns off all outputs when the die temperature
exceeds +160°C. The outputs are enabled again when
the die temperature drops below +140°C. In thermal
shutdown, all internal circuitry is shut down with the
exception of the shunt regulator.
The MAX16826 uses transconductance amplifiers to con-
trol each LED current sink. The amplifier outputs
(DL1–DL4) drive the gates of the external current sink FETs
Output-Voltage Optimization and Fault Detection
Programmable, Four-String HB LED Driver with
CC
V
R15 = (V
OVP
regulator remains active.
OVP
Undervoltage Lockout (UVLO)
VCC_UVLO
______________________________________________________________________________________
= 1.25 x (1 + R15/R16)
:
OVP
CC
Overvoltage Protection (OVP)
Linear Current Sources
/1.25 - 1) x R16
is below the V
, typically 4.3V falling), the
(CS1–CS4, DL1–DL4)
Thermal Shutdown
2
CC
C standby mode, or
voltage is high
CC
2
C interface.
undervolt-
CC
UVLO
CC
(Q2 to Q5 in the Typical Application Circuit ). The source of
each MOSFET is connected to GND through a current-
sense resistor. CS1–CS4 are connected to the respective
inverting input of the amplifiers and also to the source of
the external current sink FETs where the LED string cur-
rent-sense resistors are connected. The noninverting input
of each amplifier is connected to the output of an internal
DAC. The DAC output is programmable using the I
face to output between 97mV and 316mV. The regulated
string currents are set by the value of the current-sense
resistors (R28 to R31 in the Typical Application Circuit ) and
the corresponding DAC output voltages.
The MAX16826 features a versatile dimming scheme for
controlling the brightness of the four LED strings.
Independent LED string dimming is accomplished by dri-
ving the appropriate DIM1–DIM4 inputs with a PWM sig-
nal with a frequency up to 100kHz. Although the
brightness of the corresponding LED string is proportional
to the duty cycle of its respective PWM dimming signal,
finite LED current rise and fall times limit this linearity when
the dim pulse width approaches 2µs. Each LED string
can be independently controlled. Simultaneous control of
the PWM dimming and the LED string currents in an ana-
log way over a 3:1 range provides great flexibility allowing
independent two-dimensional brightness control that can
be used for color point setup and brightness control.
The MAX16826 has an internal ADC that measures the
drain voltage of the external current sink driver FETs
(Q2 to Q5 in the Typical Application Circuit ) using
DR1 - DR4 and the switching regulator output voltage
using OVP. Fault monitoring and switching stage out-
put-voltage optimization is possible by using an exter-
nal microcontroller to read out these digitized voltages
through the I
cessive-approximation register) topology. It sequential-
ly samples and converts the drain voltage of each
channel and V
is used to select the channel the ADC is sampling.
Conversions are driven by an internally generated
1MHz clock and gated by the external dimming sig-
nals. After a conversion, each measurement is stored
into its respective register and can be accessed
through the I
trols the analog MUX includes a 190ms timer. If the
ADC does not complete a conversion within this 190ms
measurement window then the analog MUX will
sequence to the next channel. For the ADC to complete
one full conversion, the cumulative PWM dimming on-
time must be greater than 10µs within the 190ms mea-
surement window. The minimum PWM dimming on-time
Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC)
2
2
C interface. The ADC is a 7-bit SAR (suc-
C interface. The digital circuitry that con-
LED PWM Dimming (DIM1–DIM4)
OVP
. An internal 5-channel analog MUX
2
C inter-
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