Tomato LSI to Produce World's Smallest Single-Chip IC Driver to Enable Compact, Power-Efficient High-Resolution Displays.CUPERTINO, Calif. & SEOUL, South Korea -- Driver Chip Integrated with PenTile RGBW RGBW Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire (regiment) (TM) Technology from Clairvoyante Allows aSi Display Providers to Compete in High-Resolution Markets Tomato LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. , a Korean fabless chip manufacturer specializing in display driver Integrated Circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. , will produce the world's smallest single-chip driver solution for amorphous silicon Silicon that does not have a crystalline structure and which is not conductive. Contrast with polysilicon. TFT (Thin Film Transistor) The term typically refers to active matrix screens on laptop computers. Active matrix LCD provides a sharper screen display and broader viewing angle than does passive matrix. See LCD and thin film. TFT - Thin Film transistor PenTile(R) VGA (Video Graphics Array) The display standard for the PC. All PC display adapters support VGA, and Windows machines boot up in "VGA mode" before switching to higher resolutions. display panels, an advance made possible by licensing PenTile RGBW(TM) technology from Clairvoyante. The integration of PenTile technology will enable aSi providers to capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. the rising demand for high-resolution panels sparked by emerging data-centric applications and multimedia video in handheld mobile devices. Today through Thursday, Clairvoyante is demonstrating various PenTile RGBW VGA displays that will be enabled by the Tomato LSI chip at the SID International Symposium, Seminar & Exhibition in Booth 1810 at San Francisco's Moscone Center The Moscone Center is San Francisco, California's largest convention and exhibition complex. The complex consists of two main underground halls underneath Yerba Buena Gardens, Moscone North and Moscone South, as well the three-level Moscone West exhibition hall across 4th Street. . The first LCD driver IC from Tomato LSI to feature PenTile RGBW technology is a mere 21.9 x 1.45 mm, making it ideal for applications requiring a smaller, thinner footprint. It will support up to 262K colors, visual resolution up to 480 x 640, and standard data formats. The driver has the same interface as standard RGB (Red Green Blue) The computer's native color space, which is the color system for capturing and displaying images. RGB was derived from our own perception of color because human eyes are sensitive to red, green and blue (see trichromaticity). stripe smart driver ICs, but only requires two-thirds of the memory and two-thirds the number of source drivers. It also will have integral gate driver support to reduce the chip size and the number of transistor contacts. Previously, aSi manufacturers were not able to efficiently produce high-resolution panels due to inadequate manufacturing processes. But PenTile technology integration requires only minor modifications during production, uses fewer TFTs and columns, and reduces manufacturing complexity, thus opening the VGA market to older amorphous silicon display manufacturers. PenTile technology also optimizes display performance in terms of brightness and resolution -- it can lower power consumption by at least half or more than double brightness; and it may enable smart drivers to be produced in a more cost-effective manner, giving LCD manufacturers an additional competitive advantage. "Our partnership with Tomato LSI is pushing chip performance to a new level of performance in the emerging VGA mobile market. This new chip will be at the cutting edge of power efficiency for aSi driver chips," said Joel Pollack, president and chief executive officer of Clairvoyante. "We believe the development of this PenTile VGA driver chip will be a key building block to facilitating development of the high-resolution displays needed to encourage adoption of new generations of mobile products." "The addition of data-centric features such as cameras, enhanced audio, and internet capabilities continues to increase the demands for higher resolution displays and more power-efficient portable devices," said Justin Sy Hong, president and chief executive officer of Tomato LSI. "Partnering with Clairvoyante allows us to offer display manufacturers a fully optimized, single-chip solution that will enable them to develop VGA resolution displays faster without sacrificing brightness, power efficiency or cost." Availability Tomato LSI will sell these IC driver components to major LCD manufacturers worldwide for use in mobile phone panels with up to 3.0-inch diagonals, and intends to develop more PenTile chips to ease implementation, lower cost, and increase display performance. The first VGA chip samples are now available. PenTile RGBW Technology Adoption Tomato LSI joins other driver IC and display manufacturers worldwide who recognize the benefits of incorporating PenTile RGBW technology and are licensing it for their IC drivers and displays. About Clairvoyante Clairvoyante, Inc. develops and licenses unique pixel architectures and algorithms to the flat-panel display flat-pan·el display n. A thin lightweight video display used in laptop and notebook computers and employing liquid crystals, electroluminescence, or a similar alternative to cathode-ray tubes. Also called flat screen. industry under the PenTile(R) brand family. The company's proprietary subpixel rendering Subpixel rendering is a way to increase the apparent resolution of a computer's liquid crystal display (LCD). It takes advantage of the fact that each pixel on a color LCD is actually composed of individual red, green, and blue subpixel stripes to anti-alias text with greater technology optimizes the performance of next-generation LCD displays in terms of brightness, resolution and power consumption. Founded in July 2000, Clairvoyante maintains offices in Sebastopol and Cupertino, California. The company's investors include American River
About Tomato LSI Founded in 1999, Tomato LSI (Seoul, South Korea) has emerged in the last three years as a specialized supplier of display driver ICs with its products achieving design wins in mobile handsets, notebook computers and desktop computers. Logo, Clairvoyante, and PenTile RGBW are trademarks/service marks of Clairvoyante, Inc. PenTile is a registered trademark of Clairvoyante, Inc. |
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