High performance white LED driver with single-wire serial-pulse digital dimming

Abstract A high performance white light emitter diode (LED) driver based on boost converter with novel single-wire serial-pulse digital dimming (SWSP) is proposed. The driver uses external serial programmed pulses and internal clock to simplify brightness control. By embedding a 5-bit digital analog converter (DAC) into the driver, wide dimming range is achieved. Moreover, a new dynamic slope compensation circuit is presented and other key circuits of the driver are optimized to get higher efficiency and fast transition response. A practical circuit is implemented with 0.6 um bipolar complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor double-diffused-metal-oxide-semiconductor (BCD) technology. The simulation results show that the driver can provide both wide output current from 1.3 mA to 42 mA with 32-level digital dimming and higher efficiency up to 83% while it works at 1 MHz switching frequency with the input voltage variation from 2.7 V to 5.5 V.