But power consumption in an LCD backlight draws a lot of attention. Fig. 1: A typical 16×2 LCD Fig. 2: Controlling backlight LED through a transistor. Pin diagram of a 16×2 alphanumeric LCD is shown ...

This paper proposes a novel LCD backlight inverter using a simple control circuit of low-cost with a dimming control, which utilizes zero voltage switching (ZVS) technique. This paper reviews the cold ...

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Promising easier design chores, higher reliability, and lower system costs, the FAN7316 and FAN7317 debut as the industry’s most integrated CCFL backlight inverter drive ICs for N-N half-bridge ...

Fairchild Semiconductor is offering a CCFL backlight inverter drive IC for use in N-N half-bridge, push-pull, and P-N full-bridge LCD backlight inverter designs. The FAN7316 and FAN7317 are designed ...

The circuit's output is the PWM signal used by the backlight inverter to achieve digital dimming. V CC is the inverter input (e.g., 12 V), and is also used as the supply for the PWM signal generator.