PCA9685_2
NXP B.V. 2009. All rights reserved.
Product data sheet
Rev. 02 — 16 July 2009
6 of 50
NXP Semiconductors
PCA9685
16-channel, 12-bit PWM Fm+ I2C-bus LED controller
[1]
HVQFN28 package die supply ground is connected to both VSS pin and exposed center pad. VSS pin must
be connected to supply ground for proper device operation. For enhanced thermal, electrical, and board
level performance, the exposed pad needs to be soldered to the board using a corresponding thermal pad
on the board and for proper heat conduction through the board, thermal vias need to be incorporated in the
PCB in the thermal pad region.
[2]
This pin must be grounded when this feature is not used.
7.
Functional description
7.1 Device addresses
Following a START condition, the bus master must output the address of the slave it is
accessing.
There are a maximum of 64 possible programmable addresses using the 6 hardware
address pins. Two of these addresses, Software Reset and LED All Call, cannot be used
because their default power-up state is ON, leaving a maximum of 62 addresses. Using
other reserved addresses, as well as any other subcall address, will reduce the total
number of possible addresses even further.
7.1.1 Regular I2C-bus slave address
The I2C-bus slave address of the PCA9685 is shown in Figure 4. To conserve power, no internal pull-up resistors are incorporated on the hardware selectable address pins and
they must be pulled HIGH or LOW.
Remark: Using reserved I2C-bus addresses will interfere with other devices, but only if the
devices are on the bus and/or the bus will be open to other I2C-bus systems at some later
date. In a closed system where the designer controls the address assignment these
addresses can be used since the PCA9685 treats them like any other address. The
LED All Call, Software Reset and PCA9564 or PCA9665 slave address (if on the bus) can
never be used for individual device addresses.
PCA9685 LED All Call address (1110 000) and Software Reset (0000 0110) which
are active on start-up
LED12
19
16
O
LED driver 12
LED13
20
17
O
LED driver 13
LED14
21
18
O
LED driver 14
LED15
22
19
O
LED driver 15
OE
23
20
I
active LOW output enable
A5
24
21
I
address input 5
EXTCLK
25
22
I
SCL
26
23
I
serial clock line
SDA
27
24
I/O
serial data line
VDD
28
25
power supply
supply voltage
Table 2.
Pin description …continued
Symbol
Pin
Type
Description
TSSOP28
HVQFN28