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FIGURE 1. The MIPI Alliance has defined a plethora of interfaces for use in mobile devices. This article focuses on the Display Serial Interface (DSI) shown in the upper left corner.

The MIPI Alliance is a consortium of mobile device manufacturers and electronics components vendors that was established in 2003 to specify a common set of interfaces for various sub-systems within smartphones and similar multimedia devices. They have published a range of standards covering interfaces to audio, camera, display, touchscreen and other devices as shown in their infographic (Figure 1).

One of these, the Display Serial Interface, or DSI, standard is starting to appear on readily available microcontrollers (MCUs) and displays. I have recently embarked on my first project that uses this interface, so it’s worth sharing some of what I have learned in the process.

The DSI is a high-speed serial interface between a host processor and a display module. It is designed for low pin count, high bandwidth and low EMI. We will focus on the basic features of the DSI physical layer, called the D-PHY and touch briefly on the next layer up, the Display Command Set or DCS. Figure 2 shows two ways DSI can be used. It can operate in video mode where RGB pixel data and horizontal and vertical sync signals provided by the display controller are encoded into the serial stream by the DSI Host and decoded by the Device to drive the display glass. Alternatively, if the display controller and graphics RAM are integrated into the display, DSI can operate in command mode where data being written by the MCU into the RAM is encoded on the interface. In either mode commands from the DCS can be transmitted to configure the display.

FIGURE 2. The DSI interface can operate in two modes – video mode in which the pixel data and synchronization signals are streamed to the display in real-time, and command mode in which pixel data is written to the graphics RAM integrated with the display controller in the display module.

FIGURE 4. Commands can be sent over Data Lane 0 using LP data transmission by first sending an escape sequence and then a Low Power Transmission Entry Command. Data is then sent in long or short packets as described in the text. Such communication is usually used to initialize the display at power up.

There is a lot more to the MIPI DSI interface that we don’t have space for here. This overview has hopefully given you a flavour for this interesting interface. It is a lot more complex than the classic parallel RGB plus clock and sync signals, but it requires a lot fewer pins and is capable of much higher bandwidth and therefore driving larger, high resolution displays.

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LCD can’t be driven with DC (Direct Current), it has to be driven with AC (Alternative Current) and the overall current has to be ZERO. Otherwise, the Liquid Crystal Material will be damaged sooner or later.

The Controller IC receives data written in ASCII or JIS code from the MPU and stores this data in RAM. This data is then converted into serial character patterns and transferred to the LCD driver IC.

RGB interface often been used in control large-scale high-resolution LCD display. It include 6/16/18bits data (like R0, R1, , , G0, G1, , ,B0, B1, , , ), VSYNC (Vertical synchronization), HSYNC (Horizontal synchronization).

Aimed at reducing the cost of display controllers in a mobile device. It is commonly targeted at LCD and similar display technologies. It defines a serial bus and a communication protocol between the host (source of the image data) and the device (destination of the image data)

DisplayPort (DP) is a digital display interface developed by a consortium of PC and chip manufacturers and standardized by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA). The interface is primarily used to connect a video source to a display device such as a computer monitor, and it can also carry audio, USB, and other forms of data.

DisplayPort was designed to replace VGA, DVI, and FPD-Link. The interface is backward compatible with other interfaces, such as HDMI and DVI, through the use of either active or passive adapters. It is mostly used for larger size and higher resolution displays.

HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is a proprietary audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed video data and compressed or uncompressed digital audio data from an HDMI-compliant source device, such as a display controller, to a compatible computer monitor, video projector, digital television, or digital audio device. HDMI is a digital replacement for analog video standards.

We are developing a new mipi display panel that connect straight to the colibri imx8x mipi dsi output. We obtained the proper device tree file from the LCD screen manufactures. I have attached the sample dts file here:

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Different displays have different characteristics, just tell Panox Display your application, and operating environment, Panox Display will suggest a suitable display for you.

But Panox Display is not a school, if customers don`t know the basic knowledge to design circuit boards, we suggest using our controller board to drive the display.

First, you need to check whether this display has On-cell or In-cell touch panel, if has, it only needs to add a cover glass on it. If not, it needs an external touch panel.

If you don`t know or don`t want to write a display program on Raspberry Pi, it`s better to get an HDMI controller board from us, and Panox Display will send a config.txt file for reference.

6) Power on the Raspberry Pi and wait for a few seconds until the LCD displays normally. And the touch function can also work after the system starts.

If you are using the Buster branch system, the DSI LCD can work with Raspberry Pi directly after connecting and powering on. But if you are using the Bullseye branch system, you need to modify the config.txt as below:

The Display Serial Interface (DSI) is a specification by the Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) Alliance aimed at reducing the cost of display controllers in a mobile device. It is commonly targeted at LCD and similar display technologies. It defines a serial bus and a communication protocol between the host, the source of the image data, and the device which is the destination. The interface is closed source, which means that the specification of the interface is not open to the public. The maintenance of the interface is the responsibility of the MIPI Alliance. Only legal entities (e.g. companies) can be members. These members or the persons commissioned and approved by them have access to the specification in order to use it in their possible applications.

At the physical layer, DSI specifies a high-speed (e.g. 4.5Gbit/s/lane for D-PHY 2.0differential signaling point-to-point serial bus. This bus includes one high speed clock lane and one or more data lanes. Each lane is carried on two wires (due to differential signaling). All lanes travel from the DSI host to the DSI device, except for the first data lane (lane 0), which is capable of a bus turnaround (BTA) operation that allows it to reverse transmission direction. When more than one lane is used, they are used in parallel to transmit data, with each sequential bit in the stream traveling on the next lane. That is, if 4 lanes are being used, 4 bits are transmitted simultaneously, one on each lane. The link operates in either low power (LP) mode or high speed (HS) mode. In low power mode, the high speed clock is disabled and signal clocking information is embedded in the data. In this mode, the data rate is insufficient to drive a display, but is usable for sending configuration information and commands. High speed mode enables the high speed clock (at frequencies from tens of megahertz to over one gigahertz) that acts as the bit clock for the data lanes. Clock speeds vary by the requirements of the display. High speed mode is still designed to reduce power usage due to its low voltage signaling and parallel transfer ability.

The communication protocol describes two sets of instructions. The Display Command Set (DCS) is a set of common commands for controlling the display device, and their format is specified by the DSI standard. It defines registers that can be addressed and what their operation is. It includes basic commands such as sleep, enable, and invert display. The Manufacturer Command Set (MCS) is a device-specific command space whose definition is up to the device manufacturer. It often includes commands required to program non-volatile memory, set specific device registers (such as gamma correction), or perform other actions not described in the DSI standard. The packet format of both sets is specified by the DSI standard. There are Short and Long Packets, Short Packet is 4 bytes long; Long Packet can be of any length up to 216 bytes. Packets are composed of a DataID, Word count, Error Correction Code (ECC), Payload and Checksum (CRC). Commands that require reading data back from the device trigger a BTA event, which allows the device to reply with the requested data. A device cannot initiate a transfer; it can only reply to host requests.

Image data on the bus is interleaved with signals for horizontal and vertical blanking intervals (porches). The data is drawn to the display in real time and not stored by the device. This allows the manufacture of simpler display devices without frame buffer memory. However, it also means that the device must be continuously refreshed (at a rate such as 30 or 60 frames per second) or it will lose the image. Image data is only sent in HS mode. When in HS mode, commands are transmitted during the vertical blanking interval.