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TX6121

XDS · LED Drivers · SOT-23-6

TX6121 from XDS, in a SOT-23-6. Pinout and pin descriptions extracted from the manufacturer datasheet by ds2sf; symbol, footprint, and 3D from KiCad-official CAD.

Pinout

Pin Name Type Function
1 DRV output External MOSFET gate driver output. Drives the gate of the external N-channel power MOS switch. Typical rise/fall time 50 ns into 500 pF load; minimum on-time 250 ns.
2 GND power_in Device ground reference for all internal circuitry and the CS sense resistor return.
3 DIM input Dimming input. Pulling below ~0.2 V shuts off the LED output; driving above 1.3 V gives 100% output current. Supports both PWM dimming and linear (analog) dimming with an analog range of 0.3-1.25 V. Must not be left floating; tie high if dimming is not used. For linear dimming, connect a small (>=10 nF) capacitor to GND.
4 VDD power_in Chip supply pin with internal VDD shunt (zener) regulator, typically clamped at 5.5 V (I_VDD < 10 mA). Fed from the input rail (3.6-100 V) through an external dropping resistor R1 = (VIN - VDD)/I_VDD. UVLO threshold 3.2 V (rising) with 0.5 V hysteresis; operating current 1.3 mA at 200 kHz.
5 TOFF input Off-time setting pin. Fixed switch off-time is set by a capacitor C1 to GND via T_OFF = 0.51 x 150 kOhm x (C1 + 8 pF) + T_D, where T_D = 61 ns. With no external capacitor, off-time defaults to ~650 ns (internal).
6 CS input Inductor peak current sense input. Compared against internal threshold VCS_TH (typ 255 mV, 245-265 mV) to terminate the MOSFET on-cycle. Connect to the top of the external current-sense resistor R2 between the MOSFET source and GND.

Key specifications

Parameter Value
Manufacturer XDS
Package SOT-23-6
Category LED-drv
Pins 6

CAD (KiCad official)

  • Symbol: TX6121
  • Footprint: Package_TO_SOT_SMD:SOT-23-6
  • 3D model: SOT-23-6 (KiCad packages3D, STEP)

3D model downloads

Two STEP files. Same geometry, different body top:

File Size Use it when
tx6121.step 97 KB You want the bare part, or you mark your own boards.
tx6121-etched.step 1.2 MB You want the part with TX6121 already on it.

The marking in the etched file is real recessed geometry cut into the solid, not a texture or a decal: 298 faces against 117 in the bare model. It survives export, section views, and rendering in any CAD tool, and it drops straight into KiCad or Fusion with no extra setup.

Provenance

Data extracted from the manufacturer datasheet, not a distributor listing:

  • Datasheet: XDS datasheet (7 pp, sha256 771392e4b805f3f6, retrieved 2026-08-17, tier: lcsc)
  • Extractor: ds2sf (Claude). Every pin and dimension is cited to a datasheet page; it refuses to fabricate.
  • CAD: KiCad official libraries (CC-BY-SA 4.0).

Datasheet PDF