Fluorescent Ballasts

With the right ballast design, today's fluorescent lights can produce warm, inviting light with no flickering or humming. The same high frequency electronic ballast can be tailored for many types of fluorescent lighting applications—so you can make the most of your development investment.

Features and Benefits

• Cost-effective designs require flexibility. Atmel solutions let you build fluorescent lighting solutions based on, for example, a full-featured single-chip Atmel® AVR especially designed for wireless applications, or a general microcontroller with range of standard-compliant transceiver options.
• The embedded EEPROM stores tube wattages and parameters for accurate wattage detection and parameter adjustment without the need for separate components.
• Integrated Power Stage Controllers (PSCs) reduce electrical magnetic interference (EFI), manage lamp power, and control voltage to ensure lighting stability in dimmable fluorescent lamps.

Fluorescent Ballasts

• Dimmable fluorescent ballasts are a natural fit for the Atmel AT90PWM microcontroller, which supports the Digital Addressable Lighting Interface (DALI).
• Non-dimmable fluorescent ballasts benefit from the flexible Atmel AT83EB5114 microcontroller with integrated Power Factor Corrected (PFC) capability, which eliminates the need for additional components.

The Atmel AT90PWM microcontroller supports the DALI standard to network multiple ballasts to a centralized system for tighter light level control and big energy savings.

Product Family Table: Fluorescent Light Ballasts

Lighting Component	Microcontroller	Wireless Transceiver	Recommended Evaluation Kit
Ballast Controller for Dimmable Fluorescent tube with DALI	AT90PWM2B AT90PWM216	Transceivers	ATAVRFBKIT Ballast Demo Kit
Ballast Controller for Fluorescent Tube	AT90PWM1 AT90PWM81 AT90PWM2B AT83EB5114 AT89EB5114	Transceivers	AT89RFD-10 STK500 STK520

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