Electronic Design

LED Drivers Boost Efficiency And Control

Several driver options are at the fingertips of designers with the FAN56XX family of LED drivers from Fairchild Semiconductor. For instance, driver-only parallel connection drivers with no boost ...
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LED boost driver architecture improves efficiency of notebook, tablet displays

The LED backlight in an LCD panel is the biggest power hog in notebook and tablet applications. As screen resolution and brightness level increase, the input power consumed by the LED backlight ...
Electronic Design

Building a Versatile LED Driver

Different topologies used in developing LED drivers. Proper connections for buck, boost, and buck-boost configurations. Test results for the three topologies using the same LED string. 3. This LTM8042 ...
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Inductive-boost WLED drivers for handhelds

White light-emitting-diode (WLED) technology is widely used to provide illumination for the pixels in small-format liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) in battery-powered applications. Figure 1 shows a ...