Speaker: James Schuessler, National Semiconductor
Title: Display Interfacing – Managing the transitions and looking to the future
Abstract: The move to high speed serial display interfaces in handhelds is well underway, especially at HVGA formats and higher, yet a careful analysis that balances power, volume (size) and EMI with costs and your supply chain is always necessary. We’ll look at the capabilities of the new MIPI Alliance Display Serial Interface and VESA’s MDDI and show block diagrams of simple and more complex systems these interfaces allow. Perhaps the most active current debate is the optimal location of frame buffers that trade off cost and power consumption. Looking to the near future, display-as-subsystem concepts (touch and more complex backlight control for instance) highlight the need for a more universal or abstracted interface. Distributed mobile architectures that MIPI UniPro and concepts like Network on Terminal (NoTA) allow would provide a path to the next generation. I would like to reserve an extended time for discussion.
Speaker Background: James E (Jim) Schuessler currently works in system architecture and strategic marketing with National Semiconductor’s Personal Mobile Device segment. He chair’s the Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) Alliance Technical Steering Group and is past chair of the working group that created MIPI SLIMbus™. Prior to those roles, he ran Applications Engineering for TriTech Microelectronics, a Singapore Technologies company, and participated in several other standards organizations including ANS, IEEE and VESA.
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