Question: A designer needs to back - light a display, and believes 9 LEDs are required. Each LED needs 2 V at 1 0 mA .

A designer needs to back-light a display, and believes 9 LEDs are required. Each LED needs 2V at 10 mA. The load is to be switched on/off by a 3.3V digital logic device, such that VLH and Vi_L are as indicated below. Neither terminal of the load needs to be grounded, so a single NPN transistor is proposed as driver. Find the resistor values below such that the LEDs are on as specified (saturated NPN) when the logic device output is high and off when the logic device output is low. Show calculations verifying the required off-state Vbe and the required on-state base current and the required LED current. Note: Brute force analysis requires simultaneous solution of 2 nonlinear equations to determine R4 and Rs. This is do-able but tedious - and sometimes there is no solution. Suggestion for this problem determine R4 for the on-state without RS, then reduce the calculated value of R4 by 20%, then determine R5 for the off state analysis. Then re-check the "on state". In the real world there is often some iteration anyway, given that you must pick from standard resistor values. D1 D2 D3 R1? D D5 D D6 D D7 Vin is output of 3.3V logic gate Vilmin -2.8V, Vilmax.6 Vbe on-0.7. Vbe_off-0.45, Sat beta-10. Veesat -03 Vled un-2V, ILED -10 mA R2 D D D ? Vi R4 Q1 Vino D4 D8 D9?2N3904 R312 R5 D D D

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