AN8353UB

High Efficiency Car Dashboard Dimmer IC

■ Overview Unit : mm
The AN8353UB is a dimmer IC to control illumination of the
2.4±0.25
car dashboard at high efficiency and high performance by pulse 6.0±0.3 3.3±0.25
width control. It outputs pulses at a duty proprotional to an
input voltage. 9

2.54
8

1.5±0.25
■ Features 7

0.5±0.1
6

23.3±0.3
• Low power consumption by pulse control
5
• External ON/OFF control by the standby pin
4
• Pulse frequency range : 50Hz to 10kHz
3

1.5±0.25
• Built-in overvoltage protective circuit approx. 20V

1.4±0.3
30˚
2
• Wide operating ambient temperature range : –40˚C to+100˚C
1
• All products temperature cycle, high reliability by normal
and high temperature checks reliability equivalent to the air + 0.1
0.3 – 0.05
bags requested in U.S.
3.0±0.3

9-pin SIL Plastic Package (SIP009-P-0000C)

■ Block Diagram

9 VCC

Over
Control Voltage
Protector 1
3 Voltage
Conversion PWM
Comparator

Triangular
Wave Gen. 2 GND

6 5 7 8
■ Pin Descriptions
Pin No. Pin name Description
1 Output pin Outputs an intermittent source current at a duty proportional to an input voltage
2 GND GND
3 Input pin Applies a control voltage.
4 Noise eliminating capacity connection pin 1 Connect a capacitor to eliminator a noise.
Output a triangular wave, which serves as a reference for the PWM signal,
5 Square wave output pin to the Pin6 by connecting the resistor RT between the Pins5 and6, and
capacity CT between the Pin6 and GND.
Output a triangular wave, which serves as a reference for the PWM signal,
6 Triangular wave output pin to this pin by connecting the resistor RT between the Pins6 and 5, and
capasity CT between the Pin6 and GND.
7 Noise eliminating capacity connection pin 2 Connect a capacitor to eliminator a noise.

8 Standby pin Forces to shut off an output current if a voltage higher than a threshold
voltage of 1.1V is applied to the Pin8.
9 VCC Supply Voltage

■ Absolute Maximum Ratings (Ta=25˚C)

Parameter Symbol Rating Unit
Supply voltage VCC 22 V
Power dissipation PD 550 mW
Storage temperature Topr –40 to +100 ˚C
Operating ambient temperature Tstg –50 to +150 ˚C

■ Recommended Operating Range (Ta=25˚C)

Parameter Symbol Range
Operating supply voltage range VCC 8 to 18V

■ Electrical Characteristics (Ta=25˚C)

Parameter Symbol Condition min typ max Unit
Supply current ICC Eliminate CT and RT 4 7.5 11 mA
Oscillation frequency fosc CT=0.027µF 90 115 140 Hz
0% duty input voltage VIN – 0 CT=0.027µF 2 2.5 3 V
100% duty input voltage VIN– 100 CT=0.027µF 9.5 10 10.5 V
Center duty (VCC=12V) D12V CT=0.027µF 35 45 55 %
Center duty (VCC=8V) DD8V CT=0.027µF –1 0 1 %
Center duty (VCC=18V) DD18V CT=0.027µF –1 0 1 %
Output duty gain DG CT=0.027µF 45 50 55 %
Output voltage at ON VON CT=2100pF 0.6 0.9 1.2 V
Leakage current at OFF IL CT=2100pF 0 4 µA
Over voltage detection voltage VOV CT=2100pF 18 20 22 V
Standby threshold voltage VSTH CT=2100pF 0.55 1.1 1.65 V
■ Application Circuit
• Bipolar Transister Output • MOS FET Output

AN8353UB AN8353UB

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

RT RT
180Ω (3W)
0.1µF 0.1µF 0.1µF 0.1µF
CT CT

0.056µF 0.056µF
180kΩ VR +
33µF 180kΩ VR +
33µF
± 22V ± 22V
20kΩ 20kΩ
10kΩ
10kΩ 2kΩ
1/fOSC=1.705RTCT 1/fOSC=1.705RTCT

■ Supplementary Description
• System Operational Principle to generate pulses and input them to one end (Pin6) of the
The following describes the operational principle of the PWM comparator. The triangular wave frequency fOSC can be
system using the AN8353UB. freely set from 50Hz to 10kHz, depending on the resistance
As shown in the block diagram in Fig. 1, a battery voltage value RT connected between the square wave output Pin5 and
is divided by the VR and input to the input Pin3 in accord- triangular wave output Pin6, and capacity value CT connected
ance with rotation amount. The voltage at the output Pin1 is between the triangular wave output Pin6 and ground Pin2.
controlled by the AN8353UB so that the duty of the ON/OFF The approximating expression for the then PWM frequency
period of the external output transistor will be proportional to fOSC is ;
the input voltage, thus controlling a current flowing to the 1/fOSC=1.705CTRT ······················································(1)
lamps of the dashboard, etc. to adjust their brightness. Since For your refence, Fig. 3 shows the relations among CT, RT,
the output transistors are saturated at ON time and no current and oscillation frequency fOSC. The voltage V4, whose voltage
flows at OFF time, power consumption is low. level is made matching the amplitude of the triangular wave
The PWM method is used to control the output transistors. by the control voltage converter, is given to the other input
This method, as shown in Fig. 2 I/O Characteristic Chart (Pin4) of the PWM comparator. That is, in Fig. 2 (II), the
(III), generates the triangular wave V 6 as a reference signal input voltage V3 is linearly converted into V4 by the control
voltage converter so that the amplitude of the triangular wave
will be about 20% to 80% of the input voltage input range
(axis of abscissas in Fig. 2 (II)).
0.1µF Then, a current is supplied from the output Pin1 to turn on
C1
4 the output transistors during the period (TON) when the
9
Control inverted input voltage is larger than the triangular wave. (Fig.
Battery
voltage
3 PWM
Over
10kΩ ± 2 (II), (IV)) To the contrary, while the converted input
converting voltage
circuit compa- 1
protection
33µF

rator voltage is smaller than the triangular wave, no current is

2kΩ

+
supplied from the output Pin1 and the output transistors are
Tranguian –
waveform 2 turned off. The output pulse duty is expressed as follows.
generator

6 5 7 8
Duty=TON · fOSC ······················································(2)
RT
0.1µF For the duty control characteristic of the output pulses to the
CT
C2 input voltage V3, the duty of the output pulses is controlled
STB
from 0% to 100% at high-precision linearity while the “input
Fig. 1 AN8353UB Block Diagram
voltage V3/supply voltage V9” is between about
■ Supplementary Description (cont.) 1M
VCC=12V
• System Operational Principle (cont.) VIN=6V

0.2 (B-point) and 0.8 (C-point). The A-point in the figure

shows the I/O characteristics when the “input voltage V3/sup- 100k
ply voltage V9” is 0.7. And, when V3/V9 is from 0.05V to

Oscillation Frequency fOSC (Hz)

about 0.2V (B-point), the duty is controlled to 0%, and when
V3/V9 is from 0.8V (C-point) to t.0V, the duty is controlled to
10k
100%.
The standby Pin8 can forcibly turn off the output transistors
by applying a voltage of about 1.1V or more to this pin.
CT=0.001µF
When it is not necessary to forcibly turn off the output tran- 1k
sistors, Leave the standby Pin8 open.
CT=0.01µF

CT=0.1µF
100% C 100

Turn-up Line (I)

Duty A
CT=1µF

50%
10
1k 10k 100k 1M 10M

0.5 1
Resistance RT (Ω)
0%
B
Fig. 3 Relations between Oscillation Frequency and CT and RT
V3/V9
(III) V4/V9 1 (II)
max V6/V9 • Duty D1 vs. Input Voltage VIN
V4/V9 C´ (VCC=12V)
A´
V6/V9 0.5
D1 100%
max V6/V9 t B´

0.5 1
(IV) 0

V1 V3/V9
TON DG D12V
Duty=TON · fOSC
1/fOSC
t

Fig. 2 I/O Characteristic Chart

0%
VIN–0 4V 6V 8V VIN–100
VIN
· Output voltage at ON VON · Leakage current at OFF
V 1–2
VON=VCC –V1–2 IL=
IMΩ

• Over voltage Detecting Voltage vs. Output • Standby Threshold Voltage vs. Output

D1 D1

50% 50%

0% 0%

VOV 0 VSTH
V9–2 V8–2