PCA9532

General description

The PCA9532 is a 16-bit I²C-bus and SMBus I/O expander optimized for dimming LEDs in 256 discrete steps for Red/Green/Blue (RGB) color mixing and back light applications.

The PCA9532 contains an internal oscillator with two user programmable blink rates and duty cycles coupled to the output PWM. The LED brightness is controlled by setting the blink rate high enough (> 100 Hz) that the blinking cannot be seen and then using the duty cycle to vary the amount of time the LED is on and thus the average current through the LED.

The initial set-up sequence programs the two blink rates/duty cycles for each individual PWM. From then on, only one command from the bus master is required to turn individual LEDs ON, OFF, BLINK RATE 1 or BLINK RATE 2. Based on the programmed frequency and duty cycle, BLINK RATE 1 and BLINK RATE 2 will cause the LEDs to appear at a different brightness or blink at periods up to 1.69 seconds. The open drain outputs directly drive the LEDs with maximum output sink current of 25 mA per bit and 200 mA per package (100 mA per octal).

To blink LEDs at periods greater than 1.69 seconds the bus master (MCU, MPU, DSP, chipset, etc.) must send repeated commands to turn the LED on and off as is currently done when using normal I/O Expanders like the Philips PCF8575 or PCA9555. Any bits not used for controlling the LEDs can be used for General Purpose Parallel Input/Output (GPIO) expansion which provides a simple solution when additional I/O is needed for ACPI power switches, sensors, pushbuttons, alarm monitoring, fans, etc.

The active-LOW hardware reset pin (RESET) and Power-On Reset (POR) initializes the registers to their default state, all zeroes, causing the bits to be set HIGH (LED off).

Three hardware address pins on the PCA9532 allow eight devices to operate on the same bus.

Features

• 16 LED drivers (on, off, flashing at a programmable rate)
• 2 selectable, fully programmable blink rates (frequency and duty cycle) between 0.591 and 152 Hz (1.69 seconds and 6.58 milliseconds)
• 256 brightness steps
• Input/outputs not used as LED drivers can be used as regular GPIOs
• Internal oscillator requires no external components
• I²C-bus interface logic compatible with SMBus
• Internal power-on reset
• Noise filter on SCL/SDA inputs
• Active-LOW reset input
• 16 open drain outputs directly drive LEDs to 25 mA
• Controlled edge rates to minimize ground bounce
• No glitch on power-up
• Supports hot insertion
• Low stand-by current
• Operating power supply voltage range of 2.3 V to 5.5 V
• 0 kHz to 400 kHz clock frequency
• ESD protection exceeds 2000 V HBM per JESD22-A114, 150 V MM per JESD22-A115 and 1000 V CDM per JESD22-C101
• Latch-up testing is done to JEDEC Standard JESD78 which exceeds 100 mA
• Packages offered: SO24, TSSOP24, HVQFN24

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Block diagrams/pinning

Design support

Application Notes

AN10216_1; I2C manual (27-Mar-03)

AN10441_1; Level shifting techniques in I2C-bus design (20-Jun-07)

AN264; I2C Devices for LED Display Control (22-Jul-02)

Support Documents

75016543; An industry-leading portfolio of cost-effective, power-saving solutions for major home appliances (2008-06-01)

design_con_2003_tecforum_i2c_bus_overview; DesignCon 2003 TecForum I 2 C Bus Overview (2003-01-27)

75015568; Easily test and demo LED dimming and blinking (01-Jun-06)

75013239; I 2 C Logic Selection Guide (2005-01-12)

75011212; I2C 2002-1A Evaluation Board Kit (01-Mar-03)

75012744; I2C Bus Solutions 2004 (2004-02-01)

UM10206_1; I2C Demonstration Board 2005-1 Quick Start Guide (13-Jun-06)

philips_i2c_handbook; I2C Handbook (2004-01-01)

UM10204_3; I2C-bus specification and user manual (26-Jun-07)

philips_i2c_logic_overview; Interface Products Business Line Specialty Logic Product Line I2C Logic Family Overview (2004-01-01)

75016073; NXP 2/4/8/16-bit I2C/SMBus LED dimmers PCA9530/31/32/33 (2007-06-01)

75016189; NXP I (2008-06-01)

75010198; PCA9530/9533/9531/9532 LED Dimmers (25-Sep-02)

75010654; PCA9550/9551/9552 (01-Dec-01)

75015353; PCA9633 - Better control of RGBA LEDs (01-Feb-06)

UM10317_1; PCA9633 demonstration board OM6282 (15-Dec-08)

75015669; Your complete choice for I2C-bus peripherals (01-Dec-07)

75014395; Your connection to I 2 C,UART,CAN,and USB Connecting with Philips Wired Connectivity (2005-04-01)

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