New lighting chip...

[Dylan Distasio]

I thought this new chip looked interesting, anyone have any experience or thoughts on it:

STLUX385A

STMicroelectronics presents the world's first universal digital controller for lighting and power-conversion applications

The STLUX385A device is part of the STLUX^™ family of STMicroelectronics^® digital devices tailored for lighting and power-conversion applications. The STLUX385A has been successfully integrated in a wide range of architectures and applications, starting from simple buck converters for driving multiple LED strings, boost for power factor corrections, half-bridge resonant converters for high-power dimmable LED strings and up to full-bridge controllers for HID lamp ballasts.

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Key Features

• 6 programmable PWM generators (SMEDs) (state machine event driven)
  • 10 ns event detection and reaction
  • Max.1.3 ns PWM resolution
  • Single, coupled and two coupled, operational modes
  • Up to 3 internal/external events per SMED
• DALI (digital addressable lighting interface)
  • Interrupt-driven hardware encoder
  • Bus frequency: 1.2, 2.4 or 4.8 kHz
  • IEC 60929 and IEC 62386 compliant plus 24-bit frame extension
  • Configurable noise rejection filter
  • Reverse polarity on Tx/Rx lines
• 4 analog comparators
  • 4 internal 4-bit references
  • 1 external reference
  • Less than 50 ns propagation time
  • Continuous comparison cycle
• 8 analog-to-digital converters (ADCs)
  • 10-bit precision, with operational amplifier to extend resolution to 12-bit equivalent
  • Sequencer functionality
  • Input impedance: 1 MΩ
  • Configurable gain value: x 1 or x 4
• Integrated microcontroller
  • Advanced STM8^® core with Harvard architecture and 3-stage pipeline
  • Max. f_CPU: 16 MHz
• Memories
  • Flash and E²PROM with read while write (RWW) and error correction code (ECC)
  • Program memory: 32 Kbytes Flash; data retention 15 years at 85°C after 10 kcycles at 25°C
  • Data memory: 1 Kbyte true data E²PROM; data retention:15 years at 85°C after 100 kcycles at 85°C
  • RAM: 2 Kbytes
  • ROM: 2 Kbytes
• Clock management
  • Internal 96 MHz PLL
  • Low-power oscillator circuit for external crystal resonator or direct clock input
  • Internal, user-trimmable 16 MHz RC and low-power 153.6 kHz RC oscillators
  • Clock security system with clock monitor
• Basic peripherals
  • System and auxiliary timers
  • IWDG/WWDG watchdog, AWU, ITC
• Reset and supply management
  • Multiple low-power modes (wait, slow, auto-wakeup, Halt) with user-definable clock gating
  • Low consumption power-on and power-down reset
• I/O
  • 12 multifunction bidirectional GPIO with highly robust design, immune against current injection
  • 6 fast digital input DIGIN, with configurable pull-up
• Communication interfaces
  • UART asynchronous with SW flow control
  • I²C master/slave fast-slow speed rate
• Operating temperature
  • -40°C up to 105°C