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1.
Introduction
As the industry becomes more power conscious to compensate for increasing energy costs and to meet
governmental regulations, new innovative ways of conserving energy are being developed. For the
lighting industry one of these outlets has been LEDs. Due to their longevity, robust design, low
maintenance and high efficiency, they have proven to be a viable alternative to less efficient light
sources. With their long term projected falling cost and further increased efficiency, the industry has
eagerly embraced LEDs and put them in high demand. LEDs require drivers that have specific
features such as constant current control over the temperature and manufacturing variations of LEDs,
dimming, and appropriate fault protections. The IRS254(0,1) is specifically designed to address these
requirements
The IRPLLED1 evaluation board is a high voltage LED driver designed to operate on an input DC
voltage of 40 V to 170 V and supply a programmable load current of 350 mA, 700 mA, 1 A, or 1.5 A.
The output voltage is also clamped at 30 V by the external open-circuit-protection circuitry, which can
easily be disabled or reconfigure as explained in this reference design. However the output voltage
should not exceed the ratings of the external components mounted on the board; higher voltage when
optimized components are utilized in the design. IRPLLED1 uses the IRS254(0,1), a high voltage, high
frequency buck control IC for constant LED current regulation. The IRS254(0,1) controls the average
load current by a continuous mode time-delayed hysteretic method using an accurate on chip band gap
voltage reference. The 8-pin, 200 V (600 V) rated IRS2540 (IRS2541) inherently provides short-circuit
protection, with open-circuit protection incorporated by a simple external circuit and has full dimming
capabilities. The IRS254(0,1) allows scalable designs to accommodate series and parallel
configurations of LEDs, for today’s production LEDs as well as new generation higher current LEDs,
and provides high current control accuracy over input and output voltage.
The evaluation board documentation will briefly describe the functionality of IRS254(0,1), discuss the
selection of the output stage, of the switching components, and of the surrounding circuitry. This board
was tested with a single Lumileds flood board for the 350 mA and 700 mA settings, and two
Lumileds flood boards in parallel for the 1 A and 1.5 A settings. Lumileds flood boards are available
through Future Electronics and have a max nominal current rating of 700 mA with a breakdown
voltage between 16 V and 24 V. This demo board can operate off of a 120 V AC rectified line with
the addition of a proper rectifying circuit.