Wireless Remote Control RGB LED Design Kit - TPS62260LED, Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments (TI) introduced the TPS62260LED, a new RGB LED (Light Emitting Diode) Design Kit. This LED driver design kit, along with TI’s eZ430-RF2500 development tool, provides a platform to design color lighting innovations, including a wireless RF remote control system.

TPS62260LED board controls the color and brightness of a lamp or runs an automatic color light animation program. Developers create color with three (red, green and blue) high-brightness LEDs. An MSP430F2131 microcontroller controls the brightness of each LED with constant current generated by three TPS62260 LED drivers.

TI TPS62260LED Wireless Remote Control RGB LED Design Kit

By using eZ430-RF2500 development tool, developers can utilize wireless communication (plugs on TPS62260LED board), allowing to create a lighting network of RF remote-controlled lamps. Utilization of RF remote control allows for better management of LED lamp-lighting intensity and color. With  RF remote control, the need for additional infrastructure to control the lamp is eliminated.

Key features of  TPS62260LED LED Driver:

• 2 V to 6 V Supply Voltage Range
• Output Current up to 600 mA
• 2.25 MHz Fixed Frequency Operation
• Power Save Mode at Light Load Currents
• Typ. 15 μA Quiescent Current
• Soft Start
• Voltage Positioning at Light Loads

Pricing:

• TPS62260LED-338 Three-Color LED Driver Evaluation Module includes a pre-programmed MSP430 microcontroller and documentation. Price is $19.
• MSP430 can be reprogram by a separate MSP430 Flash Emulation Tool such as the MSP-FET430UIF Development Tool. It cost $99.
• eZ430-RF2500 development tool can be ordered separately with tag price: $49.

A free Code Composer Essentials for MSP430 is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for programming and debugging an applications can be downloaded at www.ti.com/cce.

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