GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Atmel® LED DriversMSL2160 and MSL2161 compact, high-power LED string drivers use external current control MOSFETs to sink up to 350mA per string, with current accuracy and matching better than 1.5%. The MSL2160/1 drive 16 parallel strings of LEDs, and offer fault detection and management of open and short circuit LEDs. The MSL2160 features a 20MHz SPI bus, and the MSL2161 offers a 1MHz I2C serial interface. The MSL2160/1 adaptively controls the DC-DC converters that power the LED strings using Atmel's Adaptive SourcePower™ technology. This scheme optimizes power consumption without sacrificing LED current accuracy. Peak LED string currents are set using current sense resistors, and global string current is adjustable with 8-bit control. Global string drive pulse width is adjusted with an 8-bit global intensity register, and individual string pulse width is modulated with 12-bit control. The MSL2160/1 monitors the LED strings for open circuit, short circuit, lossof-sync, and over-temperature faults, and provide a hardware fault output to notify the MCU.