Product category: Analogue and Mixed Signal ICs
News Release from: Oki Electric | Subject: MT3100
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 25 January 2006
Digital source driver upgrades colour
management
A new 13bit digital source driver for high definition LCD systems is capable of a data transfer speed of 500Mbit/s.
New from Oki Electric, the MT3100 is a 13bit digital source driver for high definition liquid crystal display systems The MT3100 is the first to adopt Oki's originally developed high-speed image transferring method "flat panel low voltage differential signalling" (FP-LVDS), resulting in a data transfer speed of 500Mbit/s
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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"We believe this world's first 13bit source driver will be actively put to use in full-HDTV LCD TVs and in high-definition LCD monitors for medical and graphics use, in which complex colour management is required", said Akira Kamo, President of Silicon Solutions Company at Oki Electric.
"We also plan to promote our FP-LVDS technology to LCD module manufacturers, aiming to achieve at de-facto standard for high-speed interfaces".
The MT3100 is the world's first 13bit source driver with approximately 8200 grey-scale levels.
It has 13bit resolution of grey-scale for each output port, which enables it to individually control the characteristics of voltage-transmittance rate for RGB, an important parameter of LCDs, resulting in a clearer and more natural image than with current controls.
Oki developed the FP-LVDS, its original high-speed data transferring method based on the commonly used mini-LVDS method.
It is compatible with the mini-LVDS and with full HDTV display, and to handle the required 120Hz frame rate, Oki succeeded in enabling a transfer speed of 250MHz, which is 1.4 times faster than under current conditions.
The FP-LVDS uses the "multidrop" method, which has fewer limitations as to number of output ports (channels), compared with the "point-to-point" method which sends data individually from a timing controller.
With this advance, Oki achieved simplification of system design and reduction of development costs and turn around time.
Oki will continue to enhance its product lineup for devices with high output pin counts and will work to make FP-LVDS, the new transfer method, an industry standard.
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