Philips Semiconductors
Product data
16-bit I2C LED dimmer
PCA9532
DESCRIPTION
The PCA9532 is a 16-bit I C-bus and SMBus I/O expander
optimized for dimming LEDs in 256 discrete steps for
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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.
FEATURES
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
1.6 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).
• 16 LED drivers (on, off, flashing at a programmable rate)
• 2 selectable, fully programmable blink rates (frequency and duty
cycle) between 0.625 and 160 Hz (6.4 seconds and
6.25 milliseconds)
• 256 brightness steps
• Input/outputs not used as LED drivers can be used as regular
GPIOs
• Internal oscillator requires no external components
• I C-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
To blink LEDs at periods greater than 1.6 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.
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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.
• Operating power supply voltage range of 2.3 V to 5.5 V
• 0 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
ORDERING INFORMATION
PACKAGES
TEMPERATURE RANGE
ORDER CODE
TOPSIDE MARK
DRAWING NUMBER
24-pin plastic SO
24-pin plastic TSSOP
24-pin plastic HVQFN
-40 to +85 °C
-40 to +85 °C
-40 to +85 °C
PCA9532D
PCA9532PW
PCA9532BS
PCA9532D
PCA9532
9532
SOT137-1
SOT355-1
SOT616-1
Standard packing quantities and other packaging data is available at www.philipslogic.com/packaging.
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I C is a trademark of Philips Semiconductors Corporation.
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2003 May 02