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UM11623
PCA9959HN-ARD evaluation board
then click
WriteAll
button. This command sets all GD[x]G[y] internal registers with the
“Preset Current 1” value.
11.Click
Global
→
Page Select
). From the interface set the value “1” for
bit 7 (in the displayed byte is the only active bit), and then click
Write
.
12.Go back to the
Channels
tab (a new interface appears, because the MSB of
“PAGESEL” register was set with the value “1”). Click
Group Config
secondary tab
(see
). Select "Enable" option for the corresponding channel of the LED you
want to turn On (use the schematics to identify the corresponding channel). For a
quick check of the entire board, select “Enable” for all 24 channels. At the end, click
Write
(to configure the internal registers of the DUT).
13.Click
Preset Current 1
). From the “Preset Current 1”
interface, you can select the desired current for each LED, and then click
Write
. If the
desired current is the same for all selected channels, you can select the current for
“CH0 Preset Current 1”, and click
WriteAll
to set all channels with the same preset
current.
14.Go back to the
Settings
tab, select Enable for OE, and then click
Set all
. The
selected LEDs turn On, with the intensity according with the “Preset Current 1” value.
Starting from these steps and using the data sheet, the user can combine different
values for the internal registers of the DUT, to understand, and test the functionality of the
PCA9959 LED driver.
10 Abbreviations
Acronym
Description
DNP
Do Not Populate
DUT
Device Under Test
ESD
Electro Static Discharge
EVK
Evaluation Board
GUI
Graphical User Interface
I
2
C bus
Inter-Integrated Circuit bus
IC
Integrated Circuit
LED
Light Emitting Diode
OS
Overtemp Shutdown
PC
Personal Computer
SPI
Serial Peripheral Interface
USB
Universal Serial Bus
Table 7. Abbreviations
11 References
1.
PCA9959
—
24-Channel SPI Serial Bus 63 mA/5.5 V Constant Current LED Driver
2.
MIMXRT1050-EVK
—
3.
LPC55S69-EVK
—
LPCXpresso55S69 Development Board
4.
8MMINILPD4-EVK
Evaluation Kit for the i.MX 8M Mini Applications Processor
UM11623
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