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A Sampling Switch Design Procedure for Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Displays Shingo TAKAHASHI Shuji TSUKIYAMA Masanori HASHIMOTO Isao SHIRAKAWA Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Vol.E89-A No.12 pp.3538-3545 Publication Date: 2006/12/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1337 DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e89-a.12.3538 Print ISSN: 0916-8508 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms) Category: Circuit Synthesis Keyword: active matrix LCD, CAD tool, column driver, sampling pulse, sampling switch, Full Text: PDF(399.2KB)>>
Summary: In the design of an active matrix LCD (Liquid Crystal Display), the ratio of the pixel voltage to the video voltage (RPV) of a pixel is an important factor of the performance of the LCD, since the pixel voltage of each pixel determines its transmitted luminance. Thus, of practical importance is the issue of how to maintain the admissible allowance of RPV of each pixel within a prescribed narrow range. This constraint on RPV is analyzed in terms of circuit parameters associated with the sampling switch and sampling pulse of a column driver in the LCD. With the use of a minimal set of such circuit parameters, a design procedure is described dedicatedly for the sampling switch, which intends to seek an optimal sampling switch as well as an optimal sampling pulse waveform. A number of experimental results show that an optimal sampling switch attained by the proposed procedure yields a source driver with almost 18% less power consumption than the one by manual design. Moreover, the percentage of the RPVs within 100  1% among 270 cases of fluctuations is 88.1% for the optimal sampling switch, but 46.7% for the manual design. | ||||||||||
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