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Product category: Power Supply ICs and Controllers
News Release from: Maxim Integrated Products | Subject: MAX16806
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 08 September 2006

LED driver cuts cost and EMI concerns

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High-brightness LED driver can be programmed through an I2C interface to fold back the LED current if input voltage or LED temperature rises above the programmed threshold.

Maxim Integrated Products introduces the MAX16806 EEPROM-programmable, 350mA, high-voltage (40V) linear, high-brightness LED driver This IC can be programmed through an I2C interface to fold back the LED current if input voltage or LED temperature rises above the programmed threshold

Although a traditional architecture requires switch-mode convertors