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PCA9530
(Product Specification)
01-Oct-04, 18 pages, 138 kB

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General description

The PCA9530 is a 2-bit I2C and SMBus I/O expander optimized for dimming LEDs in 256 discrete steps for Red/Green/Blue (RGB) color mixing and back light applications.

The PCA9530 contains an internal oscillator with two user programmable blink rates and duty cycles coupled to the output PWM. The LED brightness is controlled by setting the blink rate high enough (> 100 Hz) that the blinking can not be seen and then using the duty cycle to vary the amount of time the LED is on and thus the average current through the LED.

The initial setup sequence programs the two blink rates/duty cycles for each individual PWM. From then on, only one command from the bus master is required to turn individual LEDs ON, OFF, BLINK RATE 1 or BLINK RATE 2. Based on the programmed frequency and duty cycle, BLINK RATE 1 and BLINK RATE 2 will cause the LEDs to appear at a different brightness or blink at periods up to 1.69 second. The open drain outputs directly drive the LEDs with maximum output sink current of 25 mA per bit and 50 mA per package.

To blink LEDs at periods greater than 1.69 second the bus master (MCU, MPU, DSP, chipset, etc.) must send repeated commands to turn the LED on and off as is currently done when using normal I/O Expanders like the Philips PCF8574 or PCA9554. Any bits not used for controlling the LEDs can be used for General Purpose Parallel Input/Output (GPIO) expansion which provides a simple solution when additional I/O is needed for ACPI power switches, sensors, pushbuttons, alarm monitoring, fans, etc.

The active LOW hardware reset pin (RESET) and Power-On Reset (POR) initialize the registers to their default state causing the bits to be set HIGH (LED off).

One hardware address pin on the PCA9530 allows two devices to operate on the same bus.

Features

  • 2 LED drivers (on, off, flashing at a programmable rate)
  • 2 selectable, fully programmable blink rates (frequency and duty cycle) between 0.591 Hz and 152 Hz (1.69 seconds and 6.58 milliseconds)
  • 256 brightness steps
  • Input/output not used as LED drivers can be used as regular GPIOs
  • Internal oscillator requires no external components
  • I2C interface logic compatible with SMBus
  • Internal power-on reset
  • Noise filter on SCL/SDA inputs
  • Active LOW reset input
  • 2 open drain outputs directly drive LEDs to 25 mA
  • Edge rate control on outputs
  • No glitch on power-up
  • Supports hot insertion
  • Low stand-by current
  • Operating power supply voltage range of 2.3 V to 5.5 V
  • 0 to 400 kHz clock frequency
  • ESD protection exceeds 2000 V HBM per JESD22-A114, 150 V MM per JESD22-A115 and 1000 V CDM per JESD22-C101
  • Latch-up testing is done to JESDEC Standard JESD78 which exceeds 100 mA
  • Packages offered: SO8, TSSOP8 (MSOP8)

Products/packages

Type numberNorth American Type numberOrdering code (12NC)Product statusPackagePackingMarkingChemical contentLeadfree conversion date
PCA9530DPCA9530D9352 762 96112Volume productionSOT96-1
(SO8)
TubeStandard MarkingPCA9530D
week 5, 2005
PCA9530DPCA9530D-T9352 762 96118Volume productionSOT96-1
(SO8)
Tape reel smdStandard MarkingPCA9530D
week 5, 2005
PCA9530DPPCA9530DP-T9352 762 97118Volume productionSOT505-1
(TSSOP8)
Reel Pack, SMD, 13"Standard MarkingPCA9530DP
week 12, 2005

Pricing/ordering/availability

Type numberOrdering code(12NC)Indicative price/unit($)RegionDistributorIn stockInventory dateBuy onlineSamples
PCA9530D9352 762  96112  0.8700NAAVNET ELECTRONICS MARKETING39010/3/2008 Buy online not available
PCA9530D9352 762  96118  0.8700NADIGI-KEY CORPORATION2,50010/2/2008 Buy online Order samples
   NADIGI-KEY CORPORATION10210/2/2008 Buy online  
PCA9530DP9352 762  97118  0.8700NAAVNET ELECTRONICS MARKETING2,50010/3/2008 Buy online Order samples
   NADIGI-KEY CORPORATION5,00010/2/2008 Buy online  
   NADIGI-KEY CORPORATION1,12910/2/2008 Buy online  
   NAMOUSER ELECTRONICS1,3609/30/2008 Buy online  

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Parametrics/similar products

Type numberPackageOperating
temp.(Cel)
PWMs# of BitsI²C-bus(kHz)Operating voltage(VDC)Max Sink Current per bit(mA)# of AddressesMax Sink Current
per package(mA)
Reset input pin
PCA9530DSOT96-1
(SO8)
-40~852 (160 Hz to 1.6 sec)24002.3~5.525250yes
PCA9530DPSOT505-1
(TSSOP8)
-40~852 (160 Hz to 1.6 sec)24002.3~5.525250yes

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