ZHCSMI7A December 2020 – May 2021 TPS92633-Q1
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In automotive lighting applications, thermal performance and LED diagnostics are always design challenges for linear LED drivers.
The TPS92633-Q1 device is capable of detecting LED open-circuit, LED short-circuits and single-LED short-circuit. To increase current driving capability, the TPS92633-Q1 device supports using an external shunt resistor to help dissipate heat as following section Thermal Sharing Resistor describes. This method provides a low-cost solution of using external resistors to minimize thermal accumulation on the device itself due to large voltage difference between input voltage and LED string forward voltage, while still keeping high accuracy of the total current output.