SLDS233B October 2017 – January 2020 TPS92610-Q1
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In automotive lighting applications, thermal performance and LED diagnostics are always design challenges for linear LED drivers.
The TPS92610-Q1 device is capable of detecting LED open-circuit, LED short-circuit and single-LED short failures. To increase current-driving capability, the TPS92610-Q1 device supports using an external a parallel resistor to help dissipate heat as shown in the following application, Figure 25. This technique provides the low-cost solution of using external resistors to dissipate heat due to high input voltage, and still keeps high accuracy of the total current output. Note that the one-fails–all-fail feature is not supported by this topology.