Renesas electronics releases LED driver IC design support tool

Advanced semiconductor solutions provider Renesas Electronics (Renesas ELectronics) announced the launch of the R2A20134EVB design support tool, suitable for light emitting diode (LED) driver IC--R2A20134. The tool provides a total of six versions of the product, can meet all kinds of circuit configuration, is expected to simplify the design of complex LED control circuit. Renesas electronics plans to upgrade the R2A20134 LED drive IC output to ten million per month in 2014, and provide system design support from the newly launched R2A20134EVB design support tool.

Renesas electronics said, as more and more public attention to environmental protection and energy saving, such as improving energy efficiency and reduce carbon dioxide emissions, so the LED lighting equipment becomes more popular, the expected future LED lighting will replace the current main fluorescent lighting, the market demand will continue to grow sharply. In view of this, Renesas electronics attaches great importance to the LED lighting products market, so began to develop LED drive IC device, the device can be integrated into the LED bulb to play a variety of functions, such as LED switch and brightness adjustment.

On the other hand, R2A20134 products have been mass production in March this year, it can be converted to DC drive, on the occasion of the LED in the commercial AC, achieve higher conversion efficiency, but also help to reduce the overall system cost. The new R2A20134EVB design support tool will help simplify the complex LED driver IC control circuit design, to help customers use efficient control circuit to play the potential of R2A20134.