Silicon Works Co., Ltd.

Dae Keun Han

Joon Ho Na

Dae Seong Kim

An Young Kim

Young Suk Son

Hyung Seog Oh

Hyun Ho Cho

Yong Sung Ahn

Hyun Ja Cho

Jin Hee Jeon

Young Bok Kim

Jung Min Choi

Young Jin Woo

Wanyuan Qu

Hun Yong Lim

Jung Hwan Choi

Soo Woo Kim

Yong Suk Kim

Yong Icc Jung

Joung Cheul Choi

Jeong Cheul Choi

Young Icc Jung

Sang Rok Cha

Disclosed herein are a switching mode converter and a method for controlling thereof. The switching mode converter includes a switching element, a bootstrap capacitor, and a control unit. The switching element is connected between one side of a first semiconductor device, another side of the first semiconductor device is connected to a ground, and an input power. The bootstrap capacitor is configured such that one side of the bootstrap capacitor is connected to the one side of the first semiconductor device. The control unit controls the output current or output voltage of a common charge pump provided to the switching element and the bootstrap capacitor in order to control the charging state of the bootstrap capacitor and the gate voltage of the switching element.

Switching mode converter having 100% duty cycle mode and method for controlling thereof

A circuit for driving an organic light emitting diode display includes a display panel that displays an image by using organic light emitting diodes disposed at intersection areas of a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines; a threshold voltage detection control unit that supplies a precharge voltage by sequentially turning on transistors for threshold voltage detection, which are connected among the data lines and the organic light emitting diodes on the display panel, in units of horizontal lines, and enables threshold voltages to be detected; and a source driver that detects threshold voltages of all organic light emitting diodes arranged on a corresponding horizontal line, and repeats an operation, as necessary, for sampling/holding the detected threshold voltages through M sample/hold circuits, converting the sampled/held threshold voltages into digital signals, and storing the digital signals in a memory.

Circuit and method for driving OLED display

Provided is a driver IC chip of a liquid crystal display (LCD). The driver IC chip has a layout of power pads, which may uniformly apply an adhesive force on the entire adhesion surface of the driver IC chip, when the driver IC chip is mounted on a display panel according to a chip-on-glass (COG) technique.

Driver IC chip and pad layout method thereof

A liquid crystal display driving circuit and method. A data register block of a controller applies in advance a polarity control signal to data before the data are stored in latches of a data driver, exchanges the data, and then stores the exchanged data in the latches. Thereby, it is possible to provide multiplexers, which are otherwise required for respective channels, to one controller and to decrease the size of a chip.

Circuit for driving LCD device and driving method thereof

An LCD driving circuit includes a first buffer configured to have a terminal for a first voltage, a terminal for a second voltage and a terminal for an intermediate voltage between the first voltage and the second voltage, and be driven in a range from the first voltage to the intermediate voltage; and a second buffer configured to have a terminal for the first voltage, a terminal for the second voltage and a terminal for the intermediate voltage, and be driven in a range from the intermediate voltage to the second voltage. The terminal for the intermediate voltage of the first buffer and the terminal for the intermediate voltage of the second buffer are connected with each other, and the first voltage is a highest voltage, the second voltage is a lowest voltage, and the intermediate voltage is in a range from the first voltage to the second voltage.

Liquid crystal display driving circuit with less current consumption

Provided is a technology for preventing noisy data from being displayed before valid data is inputted when power is turned on in a liquid crystal display. A source driver circuit for a liquid crystal display includes: a power supply voltage input unit configured to divide a first power supply voltage and a second power supply voltage, such that a middle level of the second power supply voltage is lower than a level of the first power supply voltage; a power supply voltage comparison unit configured to compare division voltages inputted from the power supply voltage input unit, and output an output voltage of a high level in a time period in which the middle level of the second power supply voltage is higher than the level of the first power supply voltage; a Schmitt trigger configured to output the output voltage of the power supply voltage comparison unit as a reset signal while preventing a sensitive response to external environment; and a specific voltage supply unit configured to output a voltage of a specific level in a time period between the input of the reset signal from the Schmitt trigger and the input of a first gate start pulse.

Source driver circuit of liquid crystal display device

A power supply circuit of a liquid crystal display device includes a first positive polarity charge charging unit including a first capacitor connected to positive and negative power terminals through switches to charge a charge, a second positive polarity charge charging unit including a second capacitor connected to the positive power terminal and a ground terminal through switches to charge a charge, a first positive polarity charge loading unit loading the charge supplied through the positive power terminal to a negative polarity terminal, a second positive polarity charge loading unit loading the charge charged in the first capacitor to a negative polarity terminal, a third positive polarity charge loading unit loading the charge charged in the second capacitor, and a positive polarity charge charging/loading control unit outputting charging control signals with a same phase to the switches, and periodically or irregularly changing durations of the charging and loading control signals.

Power supply circuit for liquid crystal display device that changes durations of control signals

An amplifier and a display driving circuit. The amplifier includes an input stage, a bias stage and an output stage. The input stage determines voltage levels of two nodes in correspondence to two input voltages received in response to a first bias voltage, and includes four path selecting switches, two input transistors and one bias transistor. The bias stage generates two class AB output voltages which correspond to the voltage levels of the two nodes, and includes current mirrors, ten path selecting switches, class AB bias circuits and two bias transistors. The output stage generates an output voltage VOUT that corresponds to the two class AB output voltages, and includes two coupling capacitors and two push-pull transistors. The plurality of path selecting switches operate by one signal of a first path selecting signal and a second path selecting signal that are exclusively enabled with respect to each other.

Amplifier including dithering switch and display driving circuit using the amplifier

A pad layout structure of a driver IC chip to be mounted to a liquid crystal display panel. The pad layout structure includes power pad sections placed at respective four corners of the driver IC chip and each having a first power pad for supplying first power to the driver IC chip, a second power pad for supplying second power to the driver IC chip, a third power pad for supplying third power to the driver IC chip and a fourth power pad for supplying fourth power to the driver IC chip.

Pad layout structure of a driver IC chip

A display driving circuit and method is capable of minimizing the residual image of a display panel as well as consumption electric current. The display driving circuit generates driving signals corresponding to valid data and black data and transmits the driving signals to a display panel, and includes N data selection switches (where N is the integer), N buffers, N buffer output selection switches, and multiple charge sharing switches. The N data selection switches select one of the valid data and the black data. The N buffers buffer the signal selected by the respective data selection switches. The N buffer output selection switches switch outputs of the buffers to output the respective driving signals. The multiple charge sharing switches connect the neighboring pairs of the driving signals.

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Dae Keun Han