ANX6934

    The ANX6934 is a highly compact white LED driver especially optimized for thin-film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal displays (LCDs) backlight. The chip can drive up to eight strings of LEDs and up to ten LEDs in series per string. Wide input voltage range from 2.7V to 24V makes ANX6934 well suited for applications ranging from a one-cell lithium-ion battery tablet PC to a full-size notebook PC.

     The ANX6934 offers a built-in high efficiency current mode boost converter. The eight integrated current sink regulators provide high precision current regulation and matching for LED currents up to 60mA. The feedback loop senses LED current sink voltages and compensates for the non-uniformity of the LED forward voltage accumulated on the LED strings. To minimize the power loss, the output voltage of the boost converter is automatically adjusted by monitoring the highest forward voltage of the LED strings. An unused LED channel can be disabled by connecting the channel to ground.

     The ANX6934 controls LED dimming through the pulse-width-modulation (PWM) method. The LED current is turned on and off in response to the duty cycle and frequency applied at the PWM pin.

     The ANX6934 features several protection functions including overcurrent protection (OCP), overtemperature protection (OTP), adjustable overvoltage protection (OVP), and LED string open and short detection. Once the device is turned on, the soft-start function raises the output voltage gradually to avoid voltage overshoot and inrush current. If one string opens, the LED open detection circuit detects this fault and excludes this current sink from the regulation loop. All other strings continue to work normally.