A new LCD interface——MDDI At present, there are few articles and materials about MDDI on the Internet. Recently, I have been in contact with some related things, read relevant materials, and wrote a document to share with you. I hope you like it! ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— 1 MDDI Overview The higher communication bandwidth drives more advanced mobile multimedia applications in the 3G mobile phone market. If the original parallel transmission method is continued to be used, it will inevitably cause more EMI design difficulties, increase the cost of high-end soft boards, and increase power consumption. High-resolution displays require higher transmission rates. For QVGA panels with higher screen resolution, if the same update rate is to be displayed, a higher transmission bandwidth is required, as shown in Table 1: Table 1 Transmission bandwidth required for different mobile phone panel levels (unit: Mbps) For the highest specification QVGA, the screen resolution is 240x320. If the pixels of the screen are calculated using YUV4:2:2 and 75 video frames per second, a bandwidth of about 87.9Mbps is required; if it is expressed in RGB, the required bandwidth will be even higher, reaching 131.8Mbps. Considering the general usage conditions, the LCD is connected in parallel with the baseband chip, and the overall total bandwidth requirements are more stringent because the main screen, sub-screen, main camera, sub-camera, etc. are connected at the same time. According to the characteristics of electronic circuits, serial transmission is a good way to effectively solve related problems. There are several standard serial transmission modes at present, and their transmission speeds are shown in Table 2 below: Table 2 Transmission bandwidth of various mobile phone serial transmission standards At present, there are several general color LCD connection modes: MCU mode, RGB mode, SPI mode, VSYNC mode, MDDI (Mobile Display Digital Interface) mode, etc. MDDI has an absolute advantage in solving this problem. It was proposed by Qualcomm in 2004. The connection is mainly host_data, host_strobe, client_data, client_strobe, power, GND wires, as shown in Figure 1 below. Figure 1 Typical connection structure of MDDI in flip phones MDDI mode has the following advantages: 1) Improve the transmission rate For the current main mobile phone serial transmission standards, 100Mbps is the most basic design condition, and MDDI is the mobile phone serial transmission standard with the highest transmission rate. According to Quallcomm, the transmission interface supporting MDDI3 can transmit up to 3200Mbps of data. For current multimedia mobile phones, hundreds of Mbps are enough. 2) Reduce electromagnetic interference, simplify circuit design, and reduce the burden of using the connection soft board. According to the design specifications of the MDDI standard, the 90 connection signals originally required for parallel transmission can be greatly reduced to 8 signal connections. In addition, with the relevant power connection line, the basic needs of the flip-type multimedia mobile phone can be successfully met, and the signal can be transmitted to the main (secondary) screen at the same time, and the image signal transmitted by the camera lens can be received. As shown in Figures 2 and 3 below, the connection link of the traditional parallel transmission flip phone and the flip phone using the MDDI serial transmission method is compared. Figure 2 Schematic diagram of a flip phone using traditional parallel transmission Figure 3 Schematic diagram of a flip phone using the MDDI serial transmission method 3) Reduce power loss The current source of the driver (usually 3.5mA) drives the differential line pair. Due to the high DC input impedance of the receiver, most of the driver current flows directly through the 100Ω terminal resistor, so that the signal amplitude generated at the receiver input is about 350mV. Through the switch of the driver, the presence or absence of the current flowing directly through the resistor is changed, thereby generating the logic states of \"1\" and \"0\". The use of differential transmission has a stronger ability to suppress common-mode noise than single-ended transmission. The reason is simple, because the current directions on a pair of differential lines are opposite, when the common-mode noise is coupled to the line pair, the effect produced at the receiver input is mutually offset, so the impact on the signal is small. In this way, a very low voltage amplitude (see Table 1) can be used to transmit the signal, which can greatly increase the data transmission rate and reduce power consumption. Figure 4 Structure of the MDDI interface buffer
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