Light level dimming is an important consideration in an electronic fluorescent ballast circuit. Among the dimming characteristics of a ballast circuit, linearity is a desirable control feature. In the effort leading to this thesis, a ballast circuit with linear dimming ranging from 1 watt to 36 watts was demonstrated using International Rectifier’s IR21593 control IC. In the thesis, a brief review was given for traditional fluorescent light dimming techniques. IR21593’s features were described next. Equations for designing the ballast using this IC were developed and a prototype was constructed. Experimental results validated the claim of linearity of the dimming capability.