• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.14-21
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• 2012

This paper study a method of modeling and simulation of LED driver circuit for a design optimization. Simplified LED modeling is introduced and a driver IC, HV9910, is modeled by implementing the major function blocks. Circuit of buck type converter is constructed for simulation. Simulation includes not only the internal function of IC but also the various performance results such as LED array current control and dimming. Experiment results are also shown to prove the verification of its usage. This results show that the simulation approach is valid for a circuit optimization and a reduction of development time.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.243-250
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• 2009

본 논문은 조명용 LED 구동 장치를 위한 새로운 방식의 Two-stage LED 구동 회로를 제안한다. 제안된 회로는 PFC flyback 회로의 다중 출력을 이용하여 LED 양단에 전압을 인가하여 LED 구동 회로의 출력 전압을 획기적으로 낮출 수 있어 LED 구동 회로에 사용되는 반도체 소자의 전압 스트레스를 크게 줄일 수 있다. 제안된 회로는Universal input에서 25 [W] 이상 조명 장치에 적용되는 IEC 61000-3-2 class C 규제를 만족하고, PWM 디밍을 사용하여 넓은 범위의 휘도 조절이 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 제안 회로의 동작 원리를 설명하고, 시뮬레이션 및 LED에 실제 적용 실험하여 제안 회로의 유용성을 입증하였다.

• 한국조명전기설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국조명전기설비학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.85-88
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• 2008

LED를 구동하기 위하여 여러 가지 주변회로를 하나의 IC로 통합한 Driver IC는 최근 LED의 효율의 증가와 더불어 다양한 사용처의 발생으로 인하여 그 종류가 다양해졌다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 다양한 Driver IC들의 특성을 평가하기 위한 방법 및 다양한 Application의 적용을 통한 Driver IC의 성능을 평가하였다. Driver IC의 기능성과 내구성을 판단하기 위한 시험들을 진행하였다. 여러 종류의 LED를 사용하여 Driver IC의 성능을 평가하였다. Driver IC에 원하는 동작을 구현하고자 하는 제어회로 부분도 설계하여 다양한 특성들을 분석할 수 있도록 하였다. 3종류의 응용제품을 구현하여 적용의 사례로 검토하였고 각각의 응용제품의 경우 필요한 기능들에 대한 분석도 실시하였다. 전체적으로 반도체 IC 시험규격에 의한 신뢰성 시험도 일부 실시를 하여 신뢰성에 대한 부분도 평가를 진행하였다. 이를 통하여 Driver IC의 필요요소에 대한 부분들을 결정하였다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제61권4호
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• pp.612-616
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• 2012

This paper presents an active current regulator for LED driver IC. The proposed driver circuit is consists of DC-DC converter for supplying constant DC voltage to LED, active current regulator for compensating channel-to-channel current error from LED strings and feedback circuit for controlling duty ratio of the converter. The proposed active current regulator senses current of LED channels by equalizing both $V_{DS}$ and $V_{GS}$ at LED current control transistor. Because the proposed circuit directly measures the LED channel current without a sensing resistor and regulates all channel with same regulation loop, the power consumption and the current error are much small compared with previous works. The measured maximum efficiency of overall LED driver IC is approximately 94% and current error of LED channel-to-channel is under ${\pm}1.3%$. The proposed LED driver IC is fabricated Dongbu 0.35um BCD process.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제61권9호
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• pp.1275-1282
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• 2012

This paper proposes the 16-channel LED Driver IC for Full color LED display system. The proposed LED driver IC in this paper can draw current independent of temperature and supply voltage in each channel. Current flow in the channel is configurable via an external resistor. LED brightness is adjusted by 12-Bit PWM(Pulse Width Modulation) and 8-Bit DC(Dot Correction). A real-time monitoring of IC temperature ($130^{\circ}C/150^{\circ}C$) and LED status (open/short) is provided by LED driver IC and the user can receive warning and get information on problems. A 16-channel LED driver IC is produced using 0.35 um BCD process and the size is $2.5mm{\times}2.5mm$. In this paper, channel current characteristic and channel current control function were measured in order to verify am embodied 16-channel LED driver IC by producing a single IC test board.

• 한국조명전기설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국조명전기설비학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.101-104
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• 2008

This paper is a report of designing for LED lights driver unit. The main purpose of driver designing is high electrical efficient performance and intelligent control LED driver. This LED driver can be used for intelligent light control. This product expects to improve the light control by dimming instead of interlace on/off light control that increases the social cost such as car accidents and etc.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.79-83
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• 2016

This research was analyzed thermal characteristics that was appointed disadvantage when smart LED driver ICs was packaged and we applied extracted thermal characteristics for optimal layout design. We confirmed reliability of smart LED driver ICs package without additional heat sink. If the package is not heat sink, we are possible to minimize package. For extracting thermal loss due to overshoot current, we increased driver current by two and three times. As a result of experiment, we obtained 22 mW and 49.5 mW thermal loss. And we obtained optimal data of 350 mA driver current. It is important to distance between power MOSFET and driver ICs. If thhe distance was increased, the temperature of package was decreased. And so we obtained optimal data of 3.7 mm distance between power MOSFET and driver ICs. Finally, we fabricated real package and we analyzed the electrical characteristics. We obtained constant 35 V output voltage and 80% efficiency.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제31권A호
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• pp.103-107
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• 2011

In this paper, a method is proposed to improve power factor and the input current THD in LED driver circuit. The researched circuit consists of a valley-fill circuit and boosting inductor and a Buck converter. Valley-fill circuit is a passive PFC and simplified structure, the buck converter is operated with current feedback. The switching frequency is 50KHz in LED driver circuit and LED forward current is constant. A valley-fill type PFC circuit for LED driver(15Watt) has been implemented, and the validity of proposed method is shown by is simulation and experimental result.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제21권10호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2020

최근 LED 디스플레이 시스템이 활발히 보급됨에 따라서 시스템 구동을 위한 LED 드라이버의 효과적인 제어방법에 대한 연구가 진행 중이다. 그 중에 가장 대표적인 것이 LED Driver 채널의 균일한 밝기 제어이다. 본 논문 에서는 채널 휘도 편차 최소화를 위한 전류보상 및 시스템 보호 기능을 갖는 BLU용 LED driver IC를 제안하였다. 제안하는 LED Driver IC는 채널 간 ±3% 이내의 current accuracy와 150mA 채널 전류를 목표로 설계하였다. 설계 사양을 만족시키기 위해 채널 구동 PWM 신호를 이용한 chopping 동작을 수행하도록 하여 채널 앰프 옵셋을 상쇄할 수 있도록 하였다. 또한 pre-charge기능을 구현하여 빠른 동작 속도와 채널간 휘도 편차를 최소화할 수 있도록 하였다. LED에러(오픈, 쇼트), 스위치 TR 쇼트 감지 및 동작 온도 보호 회로를 설계하여 IC 및 BLU시스템을 보호할 수 있도록 하였다. 제안된 IC는 Cadence 및 Synopsys사의 Design Tool을 사용하여 설계 하였으며, Magnachip 0.35um CMOS 공정을 사용하여 제작되었다. 제작된 LED driver IC는 채널 간 ±1.5% 이내의 current accuracy와 150mA 채널 출력특성을 만족하였으며, 평가 보드를 통해 에러 검출 회로들이 정상 동작함을 확인하였다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제23권8호
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• pp.593-600
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• 2010

In this paper, High brightness LED (light-emitting diodes) driver IC (integrated circuit) using new current sensing circuit is proposed. This LED driver IC can provide a constant current with high current precision over a wide input voltage range. The proposed current-sensing circuit is composed of a cascode current sensor and a current comparator with only one reference voltage. This IC minimizes the voltage stress of the MOSFET (metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor) from the maximum input voltage and has low power consumption and chip area by using simple-structured comparator and minimum bias current. To confirm the functioning and characteristics of our proposed LED driver IC, we designed a buck converter. The LED current ripple of the designed IC is in ${\pm}5%$ and a tolerance of the average LED current is lower than 2.43%. This shows much improved feature than the previous method. Also, protections for input voltage and operating temperature are designed to improve the reliability of the designed IC. Designed LED driver IC uses 1.0 ${\mu}m$ X-Fab. BiCMOS process parameters and electrical characteristics and functioning are verified by spectre (Cadence) simulation.