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PCA9531 8-bit I2C LED dimmer
Product data 2003 Nov 10
Philips Semiconductors
Philips Semiconductors
Product data
8-bit I2C LED dimmer
DESCRIPTION
The PCA9531 is an 8-bit I2C & SMBus I/O expander optimized for dimming LEDs in 256 discrete steps for Red/Green/Blue (RGB) color mixing and back light applications. The PCA9531 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 can not be seen and then using the duty cycle to vary the amount of time the LED is on and thus the average current through...