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SP6683 Datasheet, PDF (6/14 Pages) Sipex Corporation – High Power LED Driver for Parallel Configuration
General Overview
The SP6683 is a current regulated charge pump
ideal for converting a Li-Ion battery input for
driving white LEDs used in camera flash or
backlighting color displays in cellular phones,
PDAs, digital cameras and MP3 players. The
SP6683 is able to efficiently drive one 200mA
Flash LED or up to eight 20mA white LEDs in
parallel and maintain a constant brightness over
a very wide operating voltage range (2.7V to
5.5V). The SP6683 operates with an internal
1.2MHz clock, enabling the use of small exter-
nal components. Other features of SP6683 in-
clude PWM dimming control as well as com-
plete input/output disconnect in shutdown. In
shutdown mode the IC typically draws 500nA
current. The output regulation is achieved by
sensing the voltage at the feedback pin and
modulating the switch between the charge pump
and output capacitor.
Theory of Operation
The SP6683 regulated charge pump block dia-
gram consists of four main blocks (Voltage
Reference, Mode Control, Clock Manager, Start-
up and Charge-Pump Switches) and two com-
parators (VMODE Comparator and VOUT Com-
parator).
THEORY OF OPERATION
1) Voltage Reference. This block provides the
315mV and 1.25V reference voltages needed
for the two comparators.
2) Mode Control. An external voltage divider
connected to the VMODE pin will define an input
voltage to the mode comparator which sets the
logic state of the mode selection outputs to the
X1 or X1.5 modes. VMODE is compared to a
1.25V bandgap voltage. For example, if one
makes a 158K/100K divider, the mode will
change at 2.58 x 1.25 V = 3.23V. A comparator-
based cycle by cycle regulation ensures that no
mode change occurs during cycles.
3) Clock Manager. An internal 1.2MHz clock
is generated in this block. Depending on the
mode control, the appropriate clock phasing is
generated here and sent to the startup and charge
pump switches block.
4) VOUT Comparator & Output Control. A
315mV reference voltage is compared to feed-
back voltage to control the VOUT needed for the
application. Output current is set by a bias
resistor from the FB pin to the GND pin chosen
by the relationship:
IOUT
=
VFB
RFB
where VFB = 315mV.
Date: 3/31/06 RevG
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