Texas Instruments Corporation

Huibo Zhong

Shang Ding

Haibin Shao

Bin Hu

Yang Wayne Wang

Jing Jing Zhang

Yan He

Yang Wang

Yongxiang Zhang

Yongjie Huang

Mingming Hou

Aspects of the description provide for a circuit. In at least some examples, the circuit includes a driver. The driver includes a phase-locked loop and a digital interface. The phase-locked loop is configured to receive a clock signal and provide a second clock signal based on the first clock signal. The digital interface is configured to, receive the first clock signal, receive and sample data from a data frame at sequential rising edge transitions and falling edge transitions of the first clock signal, extract a portion of the data frame addressed to the driver from the data frame, and provide a portion of the data frame remaining after extracting the portion of the data frame addressed to the driver.

Single-clock display driver

An example circuit includes a substrate having a plurality of scan lines substantially orthogonal to a virtual centerline of the substrate. The circuit also includes a first driver integrated circuit (IC) on the substrate, the first driver IC including: a set of line switches coupled to a first set of the plurality of scan lines along a side of the first driver IC nearest the virtual centerline; a data output and a register. The circuit also includes a second driver IC on the substrate, the second driver IC including: a set of line switches coupled to a second set of the plurality of scan lines along a side of the second IC nearest the virtual centerline; and a data input coupled to the data output of the first driver IC.

Driver device layouts

An example circuit includes a substrate having a surface and electrically conductive lines. The electrically conductive lines extend in a direction substantially parallel to the surface and substantially orthogonal to a virtual centerline. The circuit also includes first and second instances of a driver device having respective first and second sides, and respective line outputs. The line outputs are arranged along the first side of the respective instance of the driver device, and the respective first side of each of the first and second instances of the driver device are nearer the virtual centerline than the second side thereof. The line outputs of the first instance of the driver device are coupled to a first set of the electrically conductive lines, and the line outputs of the second instance of the driver device are coupled to a second set of the electrically conductive lines.

A light-emitting diode (LED) display driver is operable to drive LEDs of an LED display and has a display interval with sub-periods and a blank time, each sub-period having multiple segments. The LED display driver includes: a data input; LED channel outputs adapted to be coupled to LEDs to drive the LEDs; and blank time distribution circuitry coupled between the data input and the LED channel outputs. The blank time distribution circuitry operable to distribute the blank time as blank time portions added to at least some of the sub-periods. Each blank time portion is smaller than a duration of each sub-period.

Light-emitting diode (LED) display driver with blank time distribution

A light-emitting diode (LED) display driver circuit includes: a set of scan lines, each scan line having a respective switch; a set of channels coupled to each scan line of the set of scan lines; and a scan line controller coupled to each respective switch of the set of scan lines, the scan line controller configured to provide a programmable sequence of control signals to respective switches of the set of scan lines.

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