TW8816
Highly integrated LCD controller
with on-chip MCU & CCFL controller

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- Product Description  - Key Features - Block diagram
- Target Applications - Analog Video Decoder - 8/16/24-bits YCbCr Inputs
- TFT Panel Support - Timing Controller (TCON) - Analog RGB / YCbCr Inputs
- Miscellaneous - Pricing and availability    
 
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 Product Description

The TW8816 is a highly integrated mutli-purpose LCD display solution with a high quality NTSC/PAL/SECAM 2D video decoder and a 2D De-interlacer/Scaler supporting digital and analog panels. To reduce BOM cost, TW8816 integrates an 8-bit MCU and a CCFL controller. Through multiple input ports, TW8816 can directly display video and graphic content from a variety of devices including TV Tuners, DVD players, back-up cameras, DTV/DMB receivers and navigation/GPS receivers.

 Target Applications
- Navigation + DVD + TV
- Back up Camera
- Rear Seat Entertainment
- Car TV
- Portable DVD
- PMP
- Portable TV
- Door Phone
- Photo Frame
- DMB TV
- Baby Monitor
- Home Audio
- In Flight Entertainment
 Key Features 
- Supports analog inputs including CVBS, S-Video, YPbPr & RGB signals and digital inputs including 24 bit
- RGB & 8/16/24 bit YCbCr. Interlaced and progressive ITU 656 inputs are supported
- Supports both digital & analog panels up to WXGA resolutions
- Integrates cost saving features including a CCFL controller & an on-chip 8-bit 8051 based MCU with SPI
- interface
- Built-in 8 colors Font OSD with 202 ROM and programmable 227 RAM fonts
- Supports Multi-color fonts by combining 3 single color fonts
- Embedded Image Enhancement
   - Programmable CTI, hue, brightness, saturation, contrast & sharpness control
   - Black/White Stretch
   - Programmable favorite color enhancement- up to three colors
   - Programmable Gamma Correction tables
 Analog Video Decoder
- NTSC (M, 4.34) and PAL (B, D, G, H, I, M, N, N combination), PAL (60), SECAM with automatic format detection
- Advanced synchronization processing for VCR trick play signal
- Three 10-bit ADCs and analog clamping circuit
- Built-in analog anti-aliasing filter
- Fully programmable static gain or automatic gain control for the Y or CVBS channel
- Programmable white peak control for the Y or CVBS channel
- Software selectable analog inputs allows any of the following
   - Up to 4 composite video
   - UP to 3 S-Video
   - Up to 2 analog YPbPr and RGB
- 4-H adaptive comb filter Y/C separation
- PAL delay line for color phase error correction
- Digital PLL for both color and horizontal locking
- Programmable hue, brightness, saturation, contrast, sharpness, Gamma control, and noise suppression
- Automatic color control and color killer
- Detection of level of copy protection according to Macrovision standard
 8/16/24-bits Digital RGB/YCbCr Inputs
- Allows connection to 8/16/24-bit RGB/YCbCr
- Support both interlaced and progressive ITU 656
 TFT Panel Support
- Supports a variety of Digital single pixel TFT panels and Analog active matrix TFT panels
- Supports digital TTL panel up to WXGA(1280 x 768), 100MHz and analog panel up to WQVGA (480 x 234), 20 MHz
- Supports 3, 4, 6 or 8 bits per pixel format
 Timing Controller (TCON)
- Support programmable interface signals for control
- Column (source) driver / row (gate) driver
 Analog RGB / YCbCr Inputs
- Built-in sync processor for SOG support
- Built-in Line-locked PLL
- Built-in input measurement function
- Support directly sampling up to SVGAt
 Built-in Microcontroller
- Supports external SPI Interface and I2C Master interface with GPIO
- Supports UART interface with GPIO
- Support IR or interrupt with GPIO
 Font OSD
- Built-in Font OSD with 202 ROM and programmable 227 RAM fonts. Supports Multi-color fonts by combining 3 single color fonts
- Multi-window (4) OSD support with color pallet
- 16 font & window colors available
- Support OSD overlay with alpha blending
 CCFL Controller
- Single channel CCFL controller based on push-pull architecture
- Lamp fault monitoring- Lamp Open, Lamp Over-current, Failure to Strike and Over-voltage
- Programmable Lamp Frequency to move EMI spurs out of band
- Analog or digital brightness control. 300:1 dimming range with the digital brightness control.
- Low power stand-by mode
 Image Processing & Enhancement
- Built-in 2D de-interlacing engine
- Built-in high quality scalar
- Programmable hue, brightness, saturation, and contrast controls
- Sharpness control with vertical peaking
- Programmable CTI control
- Independent RGB gain and offset controls
- Panorama / Water-glass scaling
- YCbCr hue adjustment
- Programmable Gamma correction tables
 Power Management
- Supports Panel power sequencing
- Supports DPMS for monitor power management
- 1.8 / 3.3 V operation
 Miscellaneous
- Temperature rating: -40 C to +85 C
- Supports 2-wire serial bus interface
- Spread spectrum PLL
- Low-speed ADC for KEY scan
- Programmable panel VCOM offset control
- 5V tolerant I/O
- Power-down mode
- Typical power consumption < 500mW
- Single 27MHz crystal
 Block Diagram (click on image for larger view)

 

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