Design and implementation of an FPGA-Based CCFL driving system with digital dimming capability

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3307-3316

  Liu, Yi Hwa ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Field programmable gate array (FPGA); Liquid crystal display (LCD)

Indexed keywords

ARC CURRENT; COLD CATHODE FLUORESCENT LAMPS; COMPONENT COUNT; CURRENT SPIKES; DIGITAL CONTROLLERS; DIGITAL DIMMING; DIMMING METHOD; DIMMING RANGE; DISPLAY PERFORMANCE; DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES; DRIVING CIRCUITS; DRIVING SYSTEMS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH VOLTAGE; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW OUTPUT VOLTAGE; OUTPUT POWER; POWER EFFICIENCY; PULSE DENSITY MODULATION; RESONANT CONVERTERS; VOLTAGE SPIKES;

EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); FLUORESCENT LAMPS; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; LIQUIDS; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 51449117996     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2007.903935     Document Type: Article

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