A flexible LED driver for automotive lighting applications: IC design and experimental characterization

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1071-1075

  Saponara, Sergio ^a   Pasetti, Giuseppe ^a,b   Costantino, Nico ^a   Tinfena, Francesco ^b   Dabramo, Paolo ^b   Fanucci, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b AMS AG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Automotive electronics; high voltage (HV) CMOS; integrated circuit (IC); LED driver

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING; CURRENT SLOPE; DIGITAL CIRCUITRY; ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNITS; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; HIGH VOLTAGE; HIGH VOLTAGE CMOS; HIGH-POWER; IC DESIGNS; LED DRIVER; LED DRIVERS; LINEAR REGULATORS; LOW CURRENTS; ON CHIPS; OVERSHOOT PHENOMENA; POWER DEVICES; POWER LED; POWER LEVELS; SOFT START; VOLTAGE REQUIREMENT;

AUTOMOBILE ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; LIGHTING;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 84856859385     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2174653     Document Type: Article

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