Linear Dimmable Current Controller for Low Power Automotive LED Lighting

Abstract

A novel highly dimmable current controller which is a linear one is employed in the application of low power automotive is discussed here. Light Emitting Diode is the one which drives current that is linearly controlled to decrease the intensity of LED to limit the destruction of the LED and improve its reliability. Although many dimming techniques for LED lighting are available, our proposed method outperforms the existing methods in terms of power consumption and the no. of transistors used in the proposed design. This emits 100mA and decrease the LED current which is going linearly based on the theory of dimming control voltage. Toggling of LED is avoided finally in comparison with the existing system. This circuit is developed in 0.18?m process technology and Cadence ADE with Spectre is employed for simulation purpose. The proposed method utilizes a maximum power of 392.85 mW when the supply voltage is 4V and the control voltage is 4V at the temperature of 27^oC.