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Atmel announces line of drivers for kiosk, digital signage LCDs

October 2, 2012

The Atmel Corporation announced a new family of 8-channel LED drivers for applications in kiosks, rugged digital signage displays, military, medical and avionics, according to a press release.

The drivers are integrated with a boost controller to bring a power management system with a patented Efficiency Optimizer to LCD backlighting applications. When combined with Atmel AVR microcontrollers including tinyAVR and megaAVR MCUs, the MSL3080/86/88 LED drivers provide a degree of flexibility, comprehensive fault and system monitoring, as well as a 5000:1 PWM dimming range, the announcement said.

"High power efficiency is a rapidly growing requirement in today's LED backlit industrial and monitor LCD displays," said Miguel Mendoza, senior product marketing engineer at Atmel Corporation. "High performance industrial displays demand wide dimming range for all types of ambient light conditions from low light to daylight, system and fault monitoring capabilities. The MSL3080/86/88 product family allows our customers to design display solutions to achieve these requirements."

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