JAJS521F December 2008 – May 2019 TPS61500
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LED brightness is controlled by peak LED current and duty cycle of external PWM signal. See Figure 11, Figure 12, and Figure 13, for the PWM dimming operating and linearity. Additional external switch FETs connect/disconnect LED string during PWM on/off period, shown in Figure 7. Simultaneously, the TPS61500 samples and holds the COMP voltage to speed up LED current regulation during the on period. Because the device and the external switch FETs must have several hundred microseconds to regulate the LED current, the frequency and minimum duty cycle of the PWM signal are application dependent. For example, 2% is the minimum duty cycle for a 200-Hz PWM signal.
The PWM dimming method offers better control of color because current through LED is kept constant each cycle.