JAJSDP5D February 2016 – March 2018 LM36273
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The LM36273 is a single-chip, complete backlight and LCM power solution. The device operates over the 2.7-V to 5-V input voltage range.
The backlight block consists of an inductive boost plus three current sink white-LED drivers designed to power from one to three LED strings with up to eight LEDs each (up to 28 V typical), with a maximum of 30 mA per string. A higher number of LEDs per string can be supported if the total output power requirement for the boost does not exceed 2.5 Watts. The power for the LED strings comes from an integrated asynchronous backlight boost converter with three selectable switching frequencies to optimize performance or solution area. LED current is regulated by the low-headroom current sinks. The inductive backlight boost automatically adjusts its output voltage to keep the active current sinks in regulation, while minimizing current sink headroom voltage. The 11-bit LED current is set via an I2C interface, via a logic level PWM input, or a combination of both.
The LCM bias power portion of the LM36273 consists of a synchronous LCM bias boost converter, inverting charge pump, and an integrated LDO. The LCM positive bias voltage VPOS (up to 6.5 V) is post-regulated from the LCM bias boost converter output voltage. The LCM negative bias voltage VNEG (down to –6.5 V) is generated from the LCM bias boost converter output using a regulated inverting charge pump.
The LM36273 flexible control interface consists of an HWEN active low reset input, LCM_EN1 and LCM_EN2 inputs for VPOS and VNEG enable control, PWM input for content adaptive backlight control (CABC), and an I2C-compatible interface.
Additionally, there is a flag register with flag and status bits. The user can read back this register and determine if a fault or warning message has been generated.