Description
The Smart Ballast IC is designed to control a Fluorescent Lamp Ballast including a Discontinuous Conduction Mode Power Factor Correction (PFC), a lamp Inverter Control and a High Voltage Level Shift Half-Bridge Driver

Product Highlights
• Lowest Count of external Components
• HV-Driver with coreless Transformer Technology
• Improved Reliability and minimized Spread due to digital and optimized analog control functions

Features PFC
• Discontinuous Conduction Mode PFC
• Integrated Compensation of PFC Control Loop
• Adjustable PFC Current Limitation
• Adjustable PFC Bus Voltage

Features Lamp Ballast Inverter
• Supports Restart after Lamp Removal and End-of Life Detection in Multi-Lamp Topologies
• End-of-Life (EOL) detected by adjustable ± Thresholds of sensed lamp voltage
• Rectifier Effect detected by ratio of ± Amplitude of Lamp Voltage
• Detection of different capacitive Mode Operations
• Adjustable Inverter Overcurrent Shutdown
• Self-adaption of Ignition Time from 40ms to 235ms
• Parameters adjustable by Resistors only
• Pb-free lead plating; RoHS compliant
• Halogen-free mould compound, WEEE compliant