Philips Semiconductors
Product data sheet
8-bit I2C LED driver with
programmable blink rates
PCA9551
DESCRIPTION
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The PCA9551 LED Blinker blinks LEDs in I C-bus and SMBus
applications where it is necessary to limit bus traffic or free up the
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I C Master’s (MCU, MPU, DSP, chipset, etc.) timer. The uniqueness
of this device is the internal oscillator with two programmable blink
rates. To blink LEDs using normal I/O Expanders like the PCF8574
or PCA9554, the bus master must send repeated commands to turn
the LED on and off. This greatly increases the amount of traffic on
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the I C-bus and uses up one of the master’s timers. The PCA9551
LED Blinker instead requires only the initial set up command to
program BLINK RATE 1 and BLINK RATE 2 (i.e., the frequency and
duty cycle) for each individual output. From then on, only one
command from the bus master is required to turn each individual
open drain output ON, OFF, or to cycle at BLINK RATE 1 or BLINK
RATE 2. Maximum output sink current is 25 mA per bit and 100 mA
per package.
FEATURES
• 8 LED drivers (on, off, flashing at a programmable rate)
• 2 selectable, fully programmable blink rates (frequency and duty
cycle) between 0.148 Hz and 38 Hz (6.74 and 0.026 seconds)
• Input/outputs not used as LED drivers can be used as regular
GPIOs
Any bits not used for controlling the LEDs can be used for General
Purpose Parallel Input/Output (GPIO) expansion.
• Internal oscillator requires no external components
The active-LOW hardware reset pin (RESET) and Power-On Reset
(POR) initializes the registers to their default state, all zeroes,
causing the bits to be set HIGH (LED off).
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• I C-bus interface logic compatible with SMBus
• Internal power-on reset
• Noise filter on SCL/SDA inputs
• Active-LOW reset input
Three hardware address pins on the PCA9551 allow eight devices
to operate on the same bus.
• 8 open drain outputs directly drive LEDs to 25 mA
• Edge rate control on outputs
• No glitch on power-up
• Supports hot insertion
• Low stand-by current
• Operating power supply voltage range of 2.3 V to 5.5 V
• 0 to 400 kHz clock frequency
• ESD protection exceeds 2000 V HBM per JESD22-A114,
150 V MM per JESD22-A115 and 1000 V CDM per JESD22-C101
• Latch-up testing is done to JESDEC Standard JESD78 which
exceeds 100 mA
• Packages offered: SO16, TSSOP16, HVQFN16
ORDERING INFORMATION
PACKAGES
TEMPERATURE RANGE
ORDER CODE
TOPSIDE MARK
DRAWING NUMBER
16-pin plastic SO
16-pin plastic TSSOP
16-pin plastic HVQFN
–40 °C to +85 °C
–40 °C to +85 °C
–40 °C to +85 °C
PCA9551D
PCA9551PW
PCA9551BS
PCA9551D
PCA9551
9551
SOT109-1
SOT403-1
SOT629-1
Standard packing quantities and other packaging data are available at www.standardproducts.philips.com/packaging.
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I C is a trademark of Philips Semiconductors Corporation.
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2004 Oct 01