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2.3 Display Support
• 4/8-bit monochrome or 4/8/16-bit color LCD interface for single-panel, single-drive
displays.
• 8-bit monochrome or 8/16-bit color LCD interface for dual-panel, dual-drive displays.
• Direct support for 9/12-bit TFT/D-TFD, 18-bit TFT/D-TFD is supported up to 64K
colors.
• Direct support for CRT up to 64K colors using Embedded RAMDAC.
• Direct support for NTSC/PAL TV output using Embedded RAMDAC.
2.4 Display Modes
• 4/8/15/16 bit-per-pixel (bpp) color depths.
• Up to 64 shades of gray on monochrome passive LCD panels using Frame Rate Modu-
lation (FRM) and Dithering.
• Up to 32K/64K colors in 15/16 bpp modes on color passive LCD panels using dithering.
• Up to 64K colors on TFT/D-TFD, CRT and TV.
• 4/8 bit-per-pixel color depths are mapped using three 256x4 Look-Up Tables (LUT)
allowing 16/256 out of a possible 4096 colors.
• Separate LUTs for LCD and CRT/TV.
• 15/16 bit-per-pixel color depths are mapped directly, bypassing the LUT.
• Example Resolutions:
320 x 240 at a color depth of 16 bpp.
640 x 240 at a color depth of 16 bpp.
640 x 480 at a color depth of 16 bpp.
800 x 600 at a color depth of 16 bpp.
2.5 Display Features
• SwivelView™: 90°, 180°, 270° hardware rotation of display image.
• EPSON Independent Simultaneous Display (EISD): displays independent images on
different displays (CRT or TV and passive or TFT/D-TFD panel).
• Virtual Display Support: displays images larger than the panel size through the use of
panning and scrolling.
• Hardware Cursor/Ink Layer: separate 64x64x2 hardware cursor or 2-bit ink layer for
both LCD and CRT/TV.
• Double Buffering/Multi-pages: for smooth animation and instantaneous screen update.
Hardware Functional Specification
Issue Date: 01/02/06
S1D13506
X25B-A-001-10
EPSON [ EPSON COMPANY ]
