A9913
AC-DC LED DRIVER
AiT Semiconductor Inc.
www.ait-ic.com
85~265V AC INPUT LED CONSTANT CURRENT DRIVER
DETAILED INFORMATION
Application Information
The A9913 is optimized to drive buck LED drivers using open-loop peak current mode control. This method of
control enables fairly accurate LED current control without the need for high side current sensing or the
design of any closed loop controllers. The IC uses very few external components and enables both Linear and
PWM dimming of the LED current.
A capacitor connected to the TOFF pin programs the off-time. The oscillator produces pulses at regular
intervals. These pulses set the SR flip-flop in the A9913 which causes the GATE driver to turn on. When the
FET turns on, the current through the inductor starts ramping up. This current flows through the external
sense resistor RCS and produces a ramp voltage at the CS pin. The comparators are constantly comparing the
CS pin voltage to both the voltage at the LD pin and the internal 500mV. Once the blanking timer is complete,
the output of these comparators is allowed to reset the flip flop. When the output of either one of the two
comparators goes high, the flip flop is reset and the GATE output goes low. The GATE goes low until the SR
flip flop is set by the oscillator. Assuming a 30% ripple in the inductor, the current sense resistor RCS can be
set using:
A constant off-time peak current control scheme can easily operate at duty cycles greater than 0.5 and also
gives inherent input voltage rejection making the LED current almost insensitive to input voltage variations.
Input Voltage Regulator
When a voltage is applied at the decent resistor, the A9913 maintains a constant 6.5V at the VIN pin. This
voltage is used to power the IC and any external resistor dividers needed to control the IC. The VIN pin must
be bypassed by a low ESR capacitor to provide a low impedance path for the high frequency current of the
output GATE driver.
The input current draw from the VIN pin is a sum of the 1.0mA current draw by the internal circuit and the
current drawn by the GATE driver (which in turn depends on the switching frequency and the GATE charge of
the external FET).
The IC is allowed of input maximum current draw from the VIN pin is about 20mA, so the resistor between VIN
pin and VIN input can be set using:
REV1.0
- NOV 2013 RELEASED -
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