Microcontrollers for
Advanced Lighting Solutions
TI’s MCU lighting solutions give designers efficient, flexible and
scalable intelligent lighting management and control
Intelligent lighting is the ability to reduce the
amount of light and/or energy used so that
only the right amount of light is delivered
exactly where it is needed. Digitally controlled
lighting using microcontrollers (MCUs)
unique characteristics of LEDs and other
light sources to develop efficient, scalable
and flexible designs for intelligent lighting.
With digital control, designers can scale and
easily adjust designs to multiple applications,
maximizing reuse and decreasing design
time. A digital approach also allows many
hardware features, such as soft startup, delay
and PWM phase shifting, to be implemented
in software, eliminating extra components,
cost and complexity. TI’s communications
and control solutions are for both wired and
wireless systems supporting a wide selection of
communication standards.
allows developers to take advantage of the
Solution/Protocol
Product
Tool/Kit
For more info
DALI
MSP430™ MCU/
Piccolo™
(C2000™ MCU)
TPS62660 LED-338 EVM
TMDSIACLEDCOMKIT
www.ti.com/daliappnote
Texas Instruments offers a broad suite of
microcontroller solutions for your LED and
other lighting design and control needs as well
as demonstration platforms and development
kits. The table to the left is a sample of what is
available now. For more information on these
and new products throughout the year, visit
www.ti.com/mculighting.
DMX512
MSP430 MCU/
Stellaris®/
Piccolo (C2000
MCU)
DMX512 apps note
Third-party design
TMDSIACLEDCOMKIT
MSP430 – Demo code and
reference design is available
upon request at www.ti.com/
technicalsupport
;
Stellaris – Available through
third-party Golden IC
Technology Co., Ltd.
support@golden-ic.com
Power line
communication
C2000 MCUs
TMDSPLCKIT-V3
TMDSIACLEDCOMKIT
www.ti.com/plc
ZigBee® / 802.15.4
MSP430F54xxA
MSP430F5438 Experimenter’s Board
Third-party design
www.ti.com/msp430f5438
Key benefits
6LoWPAN
CC430
(MSP430 MCU +
Low-Power RF)
Available through third-party
Sensinode,
www.sensinode.com/EN/
contact
•
Support for industry-standard communi-
cations: Power line communications (PLC),
DALI, DMX512, ZigBee®, 6LoWPAN, and
many others
Digital power
Piccolo
(C2000 MCU)
TMDSDCDCLEDKIT
TMDSRGBLEDKIT
TMDSIACLEDCOMKIT
www.ti.com/led_devkit
www.ti.com/rgb_led
www.ti.com/tool/
tmdsiacledcomkit
• Design flexibility and scalability for maximum
reuse of designs and cost management
• High-efficiency control of LEDs and other
light sources
Digital signal control
(with many PWMs)
Stellaris LM4F
MSP430 MCU
Evaluation kit with up to 40 PWM
outputs
www.ti.com/cortexm4f
Control, sensing and
dimming solutions
Development and evaluation kits
www.ti.com/msp430
• Intelligent lighting management enables
smarter light fixtures to handle lumen
maintenance to improve reliability and
lifetime of LEDs
Create intelligent lighting products with Piccolo MCUs:
• Independent dimming of 6 LED strings
• Intelligent MCU control of power stage,
lighting, and communications
• Communications support including:
DALI, DMX512, and Power Line
Communications (PLC)
• Power supply integration through digital
power for an adaptable, full-system design
with fewer components
• Full AC mains-powered reference design
Piccolo AC LED Lighting & Communications Kit
TMDSIACLEDCOMKIT
• Accelerated development with extensive
array of evaluation tools and kits