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====== MIPI DSI Display Shield for Arduino ======

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===== What is it? =====
The shield lets you drive any LCD panel with a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_Serial_Interface|DSI]] interface. DSI is used in almost every recent smartphone (that is less than ~4 years) to connect the LCD panel to the host processor. The displays are dirt cheap and offer fantastic resolutions and image quality.

===== Goals =====
  * should work with any DSI display up to 1920x1080p
  * built-in frame buffer & simple rasterizer with basic graphics primitives
  * HDMI input up to 720p (basic version) or 1080p (with external receiver chip)
  * simple host interface for drawing commands: SPI or parallel 8-bit

===== Applications =====
  * VR googles (Oculus & alike)
  * home-made projectors
  * graphics card for small microcontrollers

===== Design =====
  * [[serial-display-shield:about_dsi|About DSI Interface]]
  * [[serial-display-shield:hardware|Hardware]]
  * [[serial-display-shield:fpga-core|FPGA core]]
  * [[serial-display-shield:displays|Supported displays]]

===== Project status =====
  * **18/12/2013:** Schematics & PCB done, still need to check
  * **12/12/2013:** Initial version of the firmware, [[serial-display-shield:test_iphone_devkit|works with Iphone4/4s screens]] on a FPGA dev kit
  * **05/02/2014:** [[serial-display-shield:bare_pcbs|Got the PCBs]] and components
  * **13/02/2014:** [[serial-display-shield:test_pcbs_assembled|Test PCB assembled]], drives both 3- and 4-lane screens