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Macroblock was founded in June 1999 in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Macroblock is the world-leading LED driver IC provider. Focused on designing LED driver ICs,
they pride ourselves in delivering ICs with guaranteed performance for LED display and lighting applications in general.

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Classic Constant Current (PrecisionDrive™) LED Driver

  • Classic Constant Current (PrecisionDrive™) LED Driver

  • Multi-Function LED Driver

  • S-PWM LED Drvier

  • Hawkeye Solution: LED Driver IC Recommendation For Time-Multiplexing LED Displays

  • DC/DC Converter &
    AEC-Q100 Automotive Driver

  • All-Ways-On™ LED Driver

  • DC/DC Controller &
    AC/DC Controller

  • RGB LED Driver

Classic Constant Current (PrecisionDrive™) LED Driver
MBI5167 MBI5168 MBI5025 MBI5026 MBI5035 MBI5124 MBI5125
No. of Output Channel 8 16
Output Current Per Channel 3~45mA 5~120mA 1~45mA 5~90mA 3~45mA 1~25mA 2~30mA
Sustaining Output Voltage 17V VDD+0.3 11V
Excellent Output Current Accuracy Between Channels <±1% (typ.) <±1% (typ.) <±1.5% (typ.) <±1% (typ.) <±3% (typ.) <±1.5% (typ.) <±1.5% (typ.)
Between ICs <±1% (typ.) <±1% (typ.) <±1.5% (typ.) <±1% (typ.) <±3% (typ.) <±1.5% (typ.) <±1.5% (typ.)
Lower Ghosting Effect Elimination – – – – – ● ●
Low Knee Voltage – – – – ● – –
Current Gain – – – – – – ●
RoHS Compliant Package SOP16 ● ● – – – – –
SSOP16 ● ● – – – – –
SOP24 – – ● ● ● ● –
SSOP24 – – ● ● ● ● ●
TSSOP24 – – ● – – – –
mSSOP24 – – – – – ● –
P-DIP24 – – – ● – – –
SP-DIP24 – – – ● – – –
QFN24 – – – – – ● ●
Major Applications Commercial LED display, message sign Commercial LED display (low power) Commercial LED display, message sign
Multi-Function LED Driver
MBI5169 MBI5037 MBI5038 MBI5039
No. of Output Channel 8 16
Output Current Per Channel 5~120mA 10~80mA 3~45mA 8~90mA
Sustaining Output Voltage 17V
Excellent Output Current Accuracy Between Channels <±1% (typ.) <±1.5% (typ.)
Between ICs <±1% (typ.) <±3% (typ.) <±1.5% (typ.) <±3% (typ.)
Error Detection LED Open ● ● ● ●
LED Short ● ● ● ●
Leakage – ● ● –
Current Gain – – ● ●
Power Saving – ● ● –
RoHS Compliant Package P-DIP16 ● – – –
SOP16 ● – – –
SSOP16 ● – – –
SOP24 – ● ● ●
SSOP24 – ● ● ●
QFN 24 – – – ●
Major Applications Commercial LED display, message sign, VMS traffic sign, bus sign
S-PWM LED Driver
MBI5030 MBI5031 MBI5040 MBI5043
No. of Output Channel 16
Output Current Per Channel 8~90mA 2~60mA 1~45mA
Sustaining Output Voltage 17V
Excellent Output Current Accuracy Between Channels <±1.5% (typ.)
Between ICs <±3% (typ.) <±1.5% (typ.)
Error Detection LED Open ● ● ● –
LED Short – – ● –
Thermal Shutdown – – ● –
Current Gain 8-bit 7-bit, 0%~100% 6-bit
GCLK Multiplier – – – ●
Lower Ghosting Effect Elimination – – – ●
S-PWM 12/16-bit 12-bit 12/16-bit 16-bit
Dot Correction – – 8-bit, Digital –
RoHS Compliant Package SOP24 ● ● ● –
SSOP24 – – – ●
TSSOP24 ● ● ● –
QFN24 ● ● ● –
Major Applications High refresh rate / High grayscale LED display
Hawkeye Solution: LED Driver IC Recommendation For Time-Multiplexing LED Displays
Category
Specification		 Hawkeye 100 Hawkeye 150
Solution High Brightness Fine Pitch Fine Pitch
Driver IC MBI5051 MBI5250 MBI5252 MBI5153/
MBI5253		 MBI5254 MBI5264 MBI5754
(for common cathode LED)
MOSFETs MBI5926 / MBI5947 MBI5927 / MBI5947 / MBI5986 MBI5927 / MBI5947 / MBI5986 MBI5981
HDR-Optimized * – – – ● –
Superior Image Quality Solving the seven common problems found in fine pitch LED display
Scan Design Up to 8-scan Up to 16-scan Up to 32-scan Up to 64-scan
Intelligent Power Saving – Dynamic+ – – Dynamic+ Dynamic+ Dynamic+
LED Failure Prediction – – – – – – –
Board Level Circuitry Regular Regular Regular
Output Current 2mA-45mA@VDD=5V 0.5mA-20mA@VDD=5V 0.5mA-20mA@VDD=5V 0.5mA-20mA@VDD=4.2V 1.0mA-18mA@VDD=2.8V & 3.8V
Recommended Pixel Pitch Range 4mm~12mm 1.2mm~6mm 1mm~4mm 1mm~4mm 1.2mm~4mm

* HDR-Optimized: 16-bit grayscale @ 4KHz refresh rate at 32-scan design or above

Hawkeye Solution: LED Driver IC Recommendation For Time-Multiplexing LED Displays
Category
Specification		 Hawkeye 200 Hawkeye 250 Hawkeye 300 Hawkeye 350
Solution Fine Pitch Fine Pitch Ultra Fine Pitch, mini-LED, micro-LED Ultra Fine Pitch, mini-LED, micro-LED
Driver IC MBI5353 MBI5850 MBI5759
(for common cathode LED)		 MBI5359 MBI5864
MOSFETs MBI5927 / MBI5947 / MBI5986
HDR-Optimized * – ● – ● ●
Superior Image Quality Solving the seven common problems found in fine pitch LED display
Scan Design Up to 32-scan Up to 32-scan Up to 64-scan
Intelligent Power Saving Dynamic Dynamic+ Dynamic+ Dynamic+ Dynamic+
LED Failure Prediction – – ● ● ●
Board Level Circuitry Simplified Simplified and Modular Simplified and Modular Simplified and Modular
Output Current 0.5mA-20mA@VDD=5V 0.5mA-20mA@VDD=4.2V 0.5mA-15mA@VDD=2.8V & 3.8V 0.5mA-20mA@VDD=4.2V 0.1mA-5mA@VDD=3.3V & 4.2V
Recommended Pixel Pitch Range 0.8mm~4mm 1.5mm~6mm 0.6mm~1.5mm 0.6mm~1.5mm 0.4mm~1mm

* HDR-Optimized: 16-bit grayscale @ 4KHz refresh rate at 32-scan design or above

DC/DC Converter
MBI6646 MBI6651 MBI6652 MBI6653 MBI6655 MBI6656 MBI6657 MBI6658 MBI6660 MBI6661 MBI6662 MBI6663 MBI6664
Topology Buck / Hysteretic PFM Buck Buck / Hysteretic PFM Buck /Adaptive PFM Buck /Hysteretic PFM
Common Anode ● – – – – – – ● – – ● – ●
Max. Output Current Per Channel 1A 750mA 1A 1.2A* 2A 500mA 1A 2A 1A 2A
Max. Sustaining Voltage 40V 32V 65V 40V 45V 45V 36V 75V 71V
Supply Voltage 6~36V 9~36V 6~30V 4.5~65V 6~36V 6~40V 6~40V 4.5~32V 9~60V 5~60V 6~65V 4.5~65V
Switch on Resistance (Typ.) 0.6Ω 0.45Ω 0.3Ω 0.25Ω 0.12Ω 0.35Ω 0.2Ω 0.3Ω 0.2Ω
Dimming method Digital ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Digital to Analog – – – ● – – – – – – – – –
Analog ● – – ● – ● ● – – – – ● –
Protection LED Open ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
LED Short ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Thermal Shutdown ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Start-up ● ● ● ● ● ● ● – ● ● ● ● ●
UVLO ● ● – ● – ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
OCP/OCL ● – – ● ● ●** ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Thermal Fold-back – – – – – – ● – – – – – –
OTP Error FLAG – – – – – – – ● – – – – ●
OCP Error FLAG – – – – – – – ● – – – – ●
RoHS Compliant Package TO252 ● ● – – – ● – – ● ● – ● –
SOP8 ● – – ● ● ● – ● ● ● – ● ●
SOP10 – – – – – – – – – – ● – –
MSOP8 – ● ● ● – – – – – – – – –
SOT89 ● – – – ● ● ● – – – – – –
SOT23 ● ● ● – – ● ● – – – – – –
DFN10 – – – – – – – – – – ● – –
Major Applications MR11, MR16, Flood light, PAR light, wall wash light, stage light, panel light, emergency lighting, street light, tunnel lighting, high power LED lighting, automotive lighting

* 1.2A for SOT89 package only and 1A for SOT23 Package.

** Protection feature may very from different versions.

AEC-Q100 Automotive Driver
MBI6657Q MBI6671Q MBI1841Q
Topology Buck Multi-topology Linear
Max. Channel Current 1.2A By External MOSFET 150mA×8
Max. Sustaining Voltage 45V 71V 50V
Supply Voltage 6~40V 5.4~65V 6~50V
Switching on Resistance 0.3Ω – –
AEC-Q100 (SOP8/TSSOP14/QFN) ● ● ●
Dimming Method Digital/Analog ● ● ●
Built-in Pattern – – ●
Protection LED Open/Short ● ●* ●**
TFB ● – ●
OTP ● ● ●
Start-up ● ● –
UVLO – ● ●
OCP ● – –
RoHS Compliant Package TO252 – – –
SOP8 ● – –
TSSOP14 – ● –
TSSOP20 – – –
SOT89 – – –
SOT23 – – –
QFN – – ●
Major Applications DRL / Fog Lamp /Interior Lamp
/ Rear Lamp		 Head Lamp / DRL
/Fog Lamp		 DRL / Fog Lamp /
Interior Lamp / Rear Lamp

* LED short protection should be supported by external circuit

** LED short/open protections are only supported by certain patterns

MBI5353Q
No.of Output Channel 48
Output Current Per Channel 2~20mA
Sustaining Output Voltage 17V
AEC-Q100 (QFN) ●
ExcellentOutput Current Accuracy Between Channels <±3.0% (max.)
Between ICs <±7.5% (max.)
Scan Design Up to 32-scan
S-PWM 13/14/15/16-bit
Current Gain 3-bit/Global
7-bit/Group
Error Detection LED Open ●
LED Short ●
Thermal Protection ●
RoHS Compliant Package QFN-56 8×8
Major Applications Brake Lamp / Rear
Lamp / LED Display /
Backlight
All-Ways-On™ LED Driver
MBI1801 MBI1802 MBI1804 MBI1812 MBI1816 MBI1824 MBI1828 MBI1838
Topology Linear
No. of Output Channel 1 2 4 2 16 4 8 8
Excellent Output Current Accuracy Between Channels(typ.) – 1% 3% 1%
Between Channels(max.) 6%
Output Current Per Channel 50mA~1.2A 40~360mA 240mA 360 mA 60mA 120mA 60mA 80mA
Sustaining Output Voltage 17V 50V 70V
Supply Voltage 5V 12V 5V 8~40V
Dimming Method Digital ● ● ● – ● ● ● ●
Analog – – – ● – – – –
Protection Thermal Shutdown ● ● ● ● ● – – ●
Thermal Error Flag – ● – – – – ● –
RoHS Compliant Package SOP8 – ● ● ● – ● – –
TSSOP16 – – – – – – ● –
TSSOP20 – – – – ● – – –
TSSOP24 – – – – – – – ●
TO265 ● – – – – – – –
QFN24 – – – – – – ● –
Major Applications LED lighting, automotive lighting
DC/DC Controller
MBI6671 MBI6672 MBI6673
Topology Multi-topology /PFM Constant Off Time with Peak Current Detection Single Inductor Multi Output / PFM
Max. Output Current Per Channel By External MOSFET
Supply Voltage 4.5~65V 6~60V 20~50V
Dimming Method Digital ● ● –
Analog ● – –
Shunt Dimming – ● ●
Protection LED Open ●* – ●
LED Short ●* – –
Thermal Shutdown ● ● ●
OVP ● – –
UVLO ● ● ●
OCP – – ●
RoHS Compliant Package TSSOP14 ● ● –
TSSOP24 – – ●
Major Applications High power LED lighting, automotive lighting High power LED lighting, stage lighting

* LED open /short status can be reported by the FLT pin

RGB LED Driver
MBI6023 MBI6024 MBI6033 MBI6034 MBI6020 MBI6021 MBI6027 MBI6030 MBI6120
No. of Output Channel 3×4 3×1
Transmission Interface Topology 2-Wire 2-Wire 1-Wire
Clock Integrity Clock Inversion Clock Inversion Clock Regeneration Clock Inversion
Bi-directional – – – ● – – ● – –
Constant Output Current Range Per Channel 3~45mA 5~50mA 5~45mA 5~150mA 3~30mA
Sustaining Output Voltage 17V 28V 17V 40V 17V
Supply Voltage 3~5.5V 3~5.5V/6~24V 3~5.5V 7~30V 5~12V
Built-in LDO – – ● ● – – – ● ●
S-PWM 16-bit 16-bit – 12/8-bit 16/10-bit 12-bit
PWM – – – – 10-bit 10-bit – – –
Dot Correction – 8/6-bit – – 8/6-bit – 10/8-bit 6-bit –
Current Gain – – ● ● – – ● – –
Error Detection LED Open – – ● ● – – ● – –
LED Short – – – ● – – – – –
Leakage – – – – – – ● – –
Wire Disconnection – – – ● – – ● – –
Thermal Protection – – – – – – – ● –
RoHS Compliant Packge SSOP16 – – – – ● ● – ● –
QFN16 – – – – ● – – – –
SSOP24 ● ● ● ● – – – – –
QFN24 ● ● ● ● – – ● ● –
TSSOP24 – – ● ● – – – – –
SOP8 – – – – – – – – ●
Major Applications LED strip, mesh display LED cluster LED strip