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Texas Instruments LP5813 4 × 3 Matrix RGB LED Driver is a synchronous boost RGB driver with autonomous animation engine control. The device is ideal for supporting battery-powered applications with a 0.5V to 5.5V input voltage range, and it has ultra-low normal operation current with 0.4mA (typical) when illuminating LEDs.
The integrated synchronous boost converter maintains excellent efficiency and keeps the brightness of LEDs stable over a wide operating voltage range. The output voltage can be selected for different LED forward voltages from 3V to 5.5V with 0.1V step. The boost converter can power the LEDs driven and other loads in the system. If the boost converter needs to be bypassed, VOUT is used as the power supply input for the LED driver blocks.
The time-cross-multiplexing (TCM) structure, which uses four output pins to control 12 LED dots individually, is adopted. The high-side scan switch and low-side current sink are contained in one output. The total solution size is minimized for a space-limited system.
The autonomous animation engine can significantly reduce the real-time loading of the controller. Each LED can be configured through the related registers to realize vivid and fancy lighting effects. The Texas Instruments LP5813 can generate a 6MHz clock signal and synchronize the lighting effects among multiple devices.