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A CMOS High Dimming Ratio Power-LED Driver With A Preloading Inductor Current Method
A CMOS High Dimming Ratio Power-LED Driver With A Preloading Inductor Current Method
Abstract of LED driver. In order that LED driver obtains high dimming
This paper presents a high dimming ratio LED driver for ratio, rising time must be minimized. The rising time is limited
automotive lighting applications which require avoiding EMI by delay time; necessarily that Inductor current reaches steady
radiation. In order to accomplish a high dimming ratio LED state from zero. For this reason, if the dimming signal is
driver, the preloading inductor current methodology is changed more shortly than the minimum rising time, LED
proposed for the power stage of the proposed circuit to driver could not arrive to provide suitable current to LED.
achieve the fast transient response time during the LED load Most of the LED drivers realized higher rate of dimming, have
switching. The proposed circuit receives the input voltage of concentrated on improving the transient response by taking
12V and generates the output voltage of 30V with the load advantage of hysteretic control scheme or of double loop
current of 350mA. The chip is implemented with 0.35um feedback [3-5]. Thats because it would be the better, the
BCDMOS process, and the die area is 2.35 2.35 mm2. faster the transient response from the LED driver in order to
supply current more stably in spite of a sudden change in the
Measurement results illustrate that the proposed LED drive LED load. The hysteretic control scheme, however,
system features the minimum rising time as small as 240ns accompanies some risk to realize the inductor current sensing
and the corresponding dimming ratio becomes 2000:1 at the on high side because of the difficulty to design; on the other
dimming frequency of 1KHz. The maximum power hands, the double loop feedback could have a negative
conversion efficiency of the chip is measured to be 94.82%. influence on the stability of the system. Therefore, the
Keywords preloading inductor current method is employed to augment
Automotive lighting, Power-LED, integtated circuit, much more simply the transient response of the Power-LED
dimming ratio, LED driver 1. Introduction driver.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. Section II
1. Introduction describes concept and design considerations for the LED
In terms of automotive applications, high-power LED light driver. Simulation and Measurement results are shown in
bulbs are grabbing the attention of many automotive designers Section III. Finally, conclusions are drawn in Section IV.
by providing numerous advantages. Not only does the high-
2. The proposed LED driver system
power LED have outstanding energy efficiency (thanks to
The block diagram of the proposed Power-LED driver
eco-friendly technology), it also turns on more quickly than
system is shown in Fig 1. It consists of a boost DC-DC
incandescent light bulbs, which could help to improve safety
converter, the dimming control circuits and additional voltage
if used in brake lights. Additionally, since LED is a direct
feedback loop. The proposed LED driver is designed with a
light source, it is possible to arrange in the tiniest of spaces,
peak-current-mode DC-DC converter architecture. The system
thereby granting car manufacturing firms the liberty to create
stability is guaranteed by adopting the pole-zero cancellation
their own designs. Moreover, the lifespan of a high-power
technique with an OTA and a slope compensator [6-7]. A
LED light bulb is more than 50,000 hours, much longer than
current-sensing circuit detects the inductor current for slope
any other existing lighting technology. This means that LED
compensation. To ensure proper functionality, an enabled
light bulbs are ideal for applications requiring extended usage,
signal is required to control the power-on sequence of the
such as daytime running lights or a head-up display. However,
functional blocks.
in order to apply this high-power LED to these automotive
Considering the PWM-Dimming control carefully, this is a
applications, it would be necessary to secure the cost kind of technique to adjust the brightness of LED by ordering
reduction and consumer confidence. Certainly, if the LED- to turn it on or down, depending on the dimming signal with
driver can be carried out with ASIC, a reduction in the number the fixed current from LED. In other words, the dimming
of components in this technology would both decrease the signal contains information about the current flowing on the
cost and improve confidence of the consumer.[1-2] LEDs. This information can be utilized to predict the amount
Since the higher driving current reaches, the more rising of the current on the inductor, so that the inductor current can
and falling times for the LED currents increase, these LED be preloaded to minimize the rise time of the LED driving
drivers which are available for launching the High power LED current. Therefore the dimming signal should be modulated in
will have some difficulties to response to dimming signal. order to apply this methodology to LED driver. First of all, let
PWM dimming control, which has no color shift issue, is the dimming signal tapped in externally synchronize with the
normally employed to control the LED. This is a way to frequency to switch on LED driver. Based on this dimming
control the brightness of LED by turning on repetitively a load signal synchronized, recreate the dimming signal delayed as
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Fig. 1. The block diagram of the proposed Power-LED driver system
much as the switching cycle did. Its negotiable to decide the
cycle how does it have to be delayed, according to equation
(1).
IL : (500mA/div)