AAT1236
High Efficiency White LED Drivers
for Backlight and Keypad
™
SwitchReg
General Description
Features
The AAT1236 is a highly integrated, high efficiency
power solution for white LED and keypad backlights
in mobile/portable devices. It is based on a switching
boost converter which steps up the single cell lithi-
um-ion/polymer battery voltage to drive 5 strings of
series-connected white LEDs with precision current
regulation. The AAT1236 is capable of driving a total
of four LEDs per channel.
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Input Supply Voltage Range: 2.7V to 5.5V
Maximum Boost Output Drive: Up to 24V at 100mA
Up to 85% Efficient Operation
Up to 2MHz Switching Frequency with Small
Inductor
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User-Programmable Full-Scale LED Current,
Up to 30mA
Two-Wire, I2C Compliant Serial Interface
— Two Addressable Registers
The boost converter can produce an output drive of
up to 24V at 100mA. The high switching frequency
(up to 2MHz) provides fast response to load tran-
sients and allows the use of small external compo-
nents. A fully integrated control circuit simplifies the
design and reduces total solution size.
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Independent LED Current Control by Group
— Backlight Group B1-B2, 16 Settings
— Auxiliary Group A1-A3, 16 Settings
Independent LED ON/OFF Control
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— Fast, 400kHz Serial Transfer Rate
Non-Pulsating, High-Performance LED Current
Drive for Uniform Illumination
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A two-wire I2C serial digital interface is used to indi-
vidually turn each output sink on/off and adjust the
LED current by group. Unlike conventional pulse
width modulation (PWM) control of LED brightness,
the AAT1236 drives the LEDs with constant, non-
pulsating current. The interface is fully compliant to
the Fast/Standard mode I2C specification, allowing a
transfer rate of up to 400kHz.
— 10% Absolute Accuracy
— 2% Channel-to-Channel Matching
Over-Voltage and Over-Temperature Protection
Automatic Soft-Start Minimizes Large Inrush
Current at Startup
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Available in 3x4mm TDFN34-16 Package
A similar device is also available with a proprietary
Advanced Simple Serial Control™ (AS2Cwire™) sin-
gle wire interface; please see the AAT1235 datasheet.
Applications
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Digital Still Cameras (DSCs)
Keypad Backlight
Large Panel Displays
Mobile Handsets
PDAs and Notebook PCs
Personal Media Players
White LED Backlight
The AAT1236 is available in a Pb-free, thermally-
enhanced 16-pin 3x4mm TDFN package and is
specified for operation over the -40°C to +85°C tem-
perature range.
Typical Application
Keypad or
L=2.2µH
D1
RGB LEDs
Up to 24V max
COUT
2.2µF
R2
187kΩ
Backlight
LEDs
LIN
VIN
SW
B1 B2
A1 A2 A3
OV
Input :
2.7V~5.5V
AAT1236
R3
12.1kΩ
CIN
2.2µF
RSET GND AGND
IN
EN SDA SCL
R1
22.6kΩ
Enable
SDA
I2C
Interface
SCL
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