projects:serial-display-shield
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MIPI DSI Display Shield for Arduino
What is it?
The shield lets you drive any LCD panel with a 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
Project status
- 18/12/2013: Schematics & PCB done, still need to check
- 12/12/2013: Initial version of the firmware, works with Iphone4/4s screens on a FPGA dev kit
- 05/02/2014: Got the PCBs and components
- 13/02/2014: Test PCB assembled, drives both 3- and 4-lane screens
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