Lcd backlight driver

Abstract

Three example inverter designs are described that can be tailored to drive from one to dozens of lamps of a backlight for a liquid crystal display. For each design the lamps are driven by a 40 kHz to 60 kHz sine wave. The lamp voltage is ˜1200V to “strike” the lamps and ˜600V to produce the optimal 5 mA in each lamp. The designs are: a Royer linear oscillator driven by a buck converter stage, a push-pull inverter that drives the high voltage transformer directly, and a class-D amplifier that produces the drive sine wave using a pulse width modulation technique.

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