Automotive Exterior Lighting - Rear Light Design Challenges

LED-based lighting is increasingly popular in automotive exterior lighting since they are offering design flexibility and increased efficiency. Various system architectures and power converter topologies are used in automotive exterior lighting applications which brings design challenges that needs to be solved. This short training will first show the main driving factors of exterior lighting. Then the main architectures of rear lighting  are discussed  including  TI possible solutions. The last section presents rear lighting design challenges and how to address them.