Parade Technologies Ltd. has announced a new type of point-to-point high speed interface for use within LCD display panels. The new Scalable Intra Panel Interface, or SIPI™, achieves high data rate, low power use, and reduced interference with embedded system wireless services to meet the challenging demands for ultra-thin, high pixel density mobile displays.
SIPI provides advantages over the intra panel interfaces in common use today, including the mini-LVDS (mini Low Voltage Differential Signaling) interface and other existing intra panel interface standards. Instead of relying on a separate data clock signal, SIPI incorporates an embedded data clock through use of 8B/10B data encoding and, in addition, data scrambling is applied. The combination of 8B/10B encoding and data scrambling greatly reduce EMI and RFI. This addresses the ongoing challenge of inference with embedded wireless services, including GPS services, especially as systems get smaller and display resolutions increase.
