On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Tony Duell wrote:
Doc wrote:
The 8"-9" lcd screens from 486-era
laptops come to mind.
Doc
Are they hard to interface to? do you send them
video?
Not quite the same thing, but I was looking at the signals going to the
display in the HP110 and 110+ last night. These machines have
dot-addressable monochrome displays. There are 11 wires :
3 power : Groumd. +5V, -8 to -13V (depending on the contrast setting)
4 clocks :
a) What looks like a dot clock or data strobe
b) Possibly start-of-line sync
c) Possibly start-of-frame sync
d) What looked to be an LCD backplane drive clock
4 data lines. No idea (yet) on what the data means, but these pins did
not have regular clock-like waveforms on them.
Probably not trivial to drive. HP used a custom chip in the 110 (with an
8K*k SRAM alongside it) and a different custom _hybrid_ in the 110+ (a
similar custom chip and 2 8K*8 SRAMs in the same package).
-tony
Probably just a standard 4 bit mono LCD interface:
4 data bits (4 pixels in a horizontal line)
clocks: (from highest to lowest freq)
CL2 = data clock - each clock clocks in 4 pixels
CL1 = line sync - like hsync
FLM = first line marker - like vsync
M = backplane AC
M is usually a slow square wave
Actually they are pretty simple to drive...
Peter Wallace