Boost controller powers brighter automotive displays

A 60-V boost controller from Diodes, the AL3069Q packs four 80-V current-sink channels for driving LED backlights in automotive displays. Its adaptive boost-voltage control allows operation from a 4.5-V to 60-V input range—covering common automotive power rails at 12 V, 24 V, and 48 V—and its switching frequency is adjustable from 100 kHz to 1 MHz.

The AL3069Q’s four current-sink channels are set using an external resistor, providing typical ±0.5% current matching between channels and devices to ensure uniform brightness across the display. Each channel delivers 250 mA continuous or up to 400 mA pulsed, enabling support for a range of display sizes and LED panels up to 32-inch diagonal, such as those used in infotainment systems, instrument clusters, and head-up displays. PWM-to-analog dimming, with a minimum duty cycle of 1/5000 at 100 Hz, improves brightness control while minimizing LED color shift.

Diode’s AL3069Q offers robust protection and fault diagnostics, including cycle-by-cycle current limit, soft-start, UVLO, programmable OVP, OTP, and LED-open/-short detection. Additional safeguards cover sense resistor, Schottky diode, inductor, and V_OUT faults, with a dedicated pin to signal any fault condition.

The automotive-compliant controller costs $0.54 each in 1000-unit quantities.

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