Power Integrations Inc. announced its LYTSwitch-5 single-stage LED driver IC family. LYTSwitch-5 devices combine PFC and constant-current output, and support multiple common LED driver topologies. Solid-state lighting applications have highly variable driver requirements, and power engineers are often challenged to develop optimized designs quickly in response to requests from lighting designers.

The LYTSwitch-5 family supports the safety-rated isolated flyback topology for ballast applications, and non-isolated topologies such as buck and buck-boost for low-cost lamps and bulbs. Additionally, a choice of low-side or high-side switching enables designers to optimize for low EMI or for reduced inductor complexity. The high efficiency of LYTSwitch-5 LED driver designs results in smaller heatsinks, more compact implementations and increased lifetime.

Highly accurate CC regulation reduces the degree of overdesign required to guarantee compliance to lumen output standards from regulatory bodies such as the California Energy Commission (CEC) and ENERGY STAR®. 650 V and 725 V MOSFET options are available to optimize surge-withstand performance for a variety of product types and geographical installations. LYTSwitch-5 LED driver ICs offer up to 25 W, an extended universal input range (90 - 308 VAC) and wide output voltage range (2:1).

Protection features include thermal foldback with end-stop shutdown, short-circuit protection, input and output OVP, overcurrent protection and safe brown-in and brown-out.