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词条 CalDriCon
释义

  1. Outline of CalDriCon

  2. History of developing high-speed LCD driver interfaces

  3. Comparison among LCD driver interfaces

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. External links

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CalDriCon is an electrical digital signaling interface that for high definition liquid crystal displays (LCDs) for high-definition televisions and mobile handsets. It was originally developed by THine Electronics, Inc.

Outline of CalDriCon

  • Clock separated point-to-point interface
  • Data rate up to 2.0 Gbit/s/lane
  • CalDriCon searches the best sampling point at the receiving devices and finds the best pre-emphasis level at the transmitting devices in order to adjust
  • The pre-emphasis at the transmitter enables to keep good quality of signal integrity. Because of this feature the set systems can use low-cost cables to achieve stable high-speed data transmission
  • Terminating both of the transmitting side and the receiving side enables to reduce bad reflection effects from multi-drop points
  • CalDriCon can reduce pin counts and cables for transmission of high-definition pixel data that resulted in lowering total costs and required space for internal interface systems

History of developing high-speed LCD driver interfaces

In around 2000, LCD-panels often selected high-speed driver interfaces such as mini-LVDS, developed by Texas Instruments, and RSDS (Reduced Swing Differential Signaling), developed by National Semiconductor.

However, as full HD televisions were launched in 2005 and full HD with double frame rate in 2007, higher-speed demands in high-definition televisions have required advanced technologies in driver interfaces. In such situation, new LCD driver interfaces such as Advanced PPmL and CalDriCon have appeared to solve the constraints of high-speed technologies.

Comparison among LCD driver interfaces

Among new LCD driver interfaces, CalDriCon satisfies both of high-speed requirements of 2.0 Gbit/s/lane and noise tolerances against unstable power sources and grounds as well as auto-adjustment of skew between clock and data.

Comparison among LCD driver interfaces
name mini-LVDS Advanced PPmL CalDriCon
Data rate per lane ~300 Mbit/s ~2.0 Gbit/s ~2.0 Gbit/s
Connection Bus topology Point-to-Point Point-to-Point
Signal integrity distortion by multi-drop Appear Not appear Not appear
Skew adjustment between clock and data Not available Not required Auto-adjustable
Noise tolerance for unstable power sources and ground Strong: driver ICs do not have PLL circuits Weak: driver ICs have PLL circuits Strong: driver ICs do not have PLL circuits

As driver ICs are generally loaded as COF (chip-on-film), they are often affected by noises from unstable power sources and ground. While mini-LVDS and RSDS were based on differential signaling and relatively tolerant for noise, they have faced difficulties to achieve higher-speed performance than 1 Gpbs because of no skew adjustment between clock and power.

On the other hand, many of advanced LCD driver interfaces, using CDR (or clock data recovery) technology, remove the necessities to adjust skew between clock and data and achieved higher data rate over 1 Gbit/s. However, CDR technology requires having PLL circuits on receiving driver ICs. COF is easily affected by the noise of power source and ground.

CalDriCon, instead of using CDR, detects the optimal sampling points at receiving driver ICs and adjust the transmitting phase between clock and data. This feature achieves both of high-speed of 2 Gbit/s and noise tolerances in unstable power sources and ground as well solution of skew adjustment.

In addition, CalDriCon and many other advanced driver interfaces adopt Point-to-Point connection that brings much less distortion of signal integrity even in the multi-drop connection than mini-LVDS that is often affected by noise because of its bus topology.

See also

  • Low voltage differential signaling
  • V-by-One HS

References

  • “Trend of high-speed in LCD driver: 2Gbps becomes available,” Nikkei Electronics (Nov.01,2010, pp. 12~pp. 13)

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20120719050310/http://www.thine.co.jp/index_e.php THine Electronics]

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