摘要
This paper presents a high dimming ratio light emitting diode （LED） drive controller chip with digital mode dimming （DMD）. The chip is composed of a boost power converter and a dimming control block. A novel constant on time （COT） control strategy is proposed for boost converter to achieve high dimming ratio. In addition, a fast enough load transient response of the converter power stage ensures its high dimming ratio. The COT control circuit operates mainly based on two current-capacitor timers and a finite state machine （FSM）. The LED drive controller chip is designed and fabricated in 1.5μm bipolar CMOS-DMOS （BCD） process with a die area of 1.31 x 1.43 mm^2. Experimental results show that the proposed LED drive system works well. And, as expected, the minimum LED dimming on time of 1.0μs and the corresponding dimming ratio of 1000 ： 1 at 1 kHz dimming frequency are successfully achieved.
This paper presents a high dimming ratio light emitting diode （LED） drive controller chip with digital mode dimming （DMD）. The chip is composed of a boost power converter and a dimming control block. A novel constant on time （COT） control strategy is proposed for boost converter to achieve high dimming ratio. In addition, a fast enough load transient response of the converter power stage ensures its high dimming ratio. The COT control circuit operates mainly based on two current-capacitor timers and a finite state machine （FSM）. The LED drive controller chip is designed and fabricated in 1.5μm bipolar CMOS-DMOS （BCD） process with a die area of 1.31 x 1.43 mm^2. Experimental results show that the proposed LED drive system works well. And, as expected, the minimum LED dimming on time of 1.0μs and the corresponding dimming ratio of 1000 ： 1 at 1 kHz dimming frequency are successfully achieved.
基金
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 90707002).
