Cypress highlight LED controller without manual coding simplified design

Plath (Cypress Semiconductor Corp.) semiconductor company announced the launch of a high brightness (HB) to complete the design of LED intelligent lighting system solutions, this solution can provide ease of use and performance of the hitherto unknown. Based on Plath's new EZ-Color series HB LED controller product development, the industry's first embedded visual design tools PSoC Express software support. Engineers only need to enter the selected LED and choose a good color, unique EZ-Color architecture and PSoC Express software portfolio can provide a complete design solution, which is unprecedented. These design solutions can be applied to a variety of growing applications, such as building lighting, general signs, rechargeable flashlight, entertainment lighting, motor vehicle emergency lighting, etc..

In order to provide consistent color, the current LED design requires a series of complex calculations. At present, HB LED engineers are facing the two biggest problems, one is the need to consider different encoding (manufacturing bin) between the LED performance specifications; two is to reduce the performance of LED at different temperatures (such as light output wavelength, etc.). The use of PSoC Express, designers only need to select color from the screen color gamut. Pre installed production coding specifications and temperature feedback algorithms will be automatically applied to the selected design and programmed into the EZ-Color controller. For complex designs, this can save weeks or even months of design time.

EZ-Color controller not only has the advantages of easy design, but also supports up to 16 LED channels, compared to similar competing products can only support four to five channels. Support for more channels means that in the large design, you can save dozens or even hundreds of controllers, reduce design complexity, power consumption and board level space. The EZ-Color controller also uses the Plath PrISMTM patent (high precision lighting signal modulation) technology. PrISM modulation technology greatly reduces the low-frequency flicker and radiated electromagnetic interference (EMI), which is a common problem in the design of HB LED. Designers can also be flexible to the EZ-Color controller to add more features, such as battery charging, motor control and other features.

Market Research Director iSuppli Jagdish and chief analyst Dr RebELlo said: "the application of high brightness LED is very wide and rapid growth, similar to the EZ-Color multi-function controller such solution simplifies the design process of these applications, there is the possibility of further accelerated the growth of the market. "

CY3261A-RGB Evaluation Kit provides support for the EZ-Color series. The Evaluation Kit demonstrates the flexibility and ease of use of EZ-Color in high brightness LED color mixing applications, and uses temperature compensation to provide consistent color. In the evaluation kit also includes an interactive graphical interface, can be directly controlled by the CIE chart or a single HB LED color mixing. You can log on to www.cypress.com and click on the online store for $149 to purchase the package.

Price and supply

The EZ-Color family includes up to 4 devices (CY8CLED04), 8 (CY8CLED08), and () LED (CY8CLED16) devices. To supply all devices before large quantities of CY8CLED04 price less than $4. If you want to know about EZ-Color and HB LED color mixing technology training materials and PSoC Express 3 software free download for more details, please visit the http://www.cypress.com/EZ-Color login, www.cypress.com/EZ-Colorphoto can download high-resolution photos.

Source: electronic system design