[Keith]’s cousin gave him a LCD with a noisy backlight. He decided to replace it with a series of high output LEDs. He sourced some locally in the form of cheap LED headlamps from an auto-parts store.

STMicroelectronics has introduced three monolithic step-up converters for LED backlights and lighting, providing 30mA or 85mA current sources for six rows of up to 10 white LEDs. The LED7706, LED7707 ...

Light emitting diodes are used in an increasing number of medium- and large-format displays as backlight. As could be seen recently at the ifa, the Consumer Electronics sector is assuming a pioneering ...

ROHM’s new series of automotive-focused matrix LED drivers combines an 8-line switch controller with 24-channel current driver, bringing control (dimming) to up to 192 zones of mini-LEDs for ...

This will enable designers to use the single backlight source to indicate status very clearly, rather than a single colour backlight that is simply on or off. Dual Status Profiled Backlights provide a ...