Mini-Monitors?

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Fri Jun 12 20:25:00 1998

> An LCD would be ideal but alas none are available
> (low cost) that have more than the basic LCD drivers. The DELL laptop
> LCD I have is typical of the MONO 640x480 displays and the "video" input
> is not like a crt in timing or signals. For example the display is
> really two 640x240 running in parallel with seperate video for each.
> Hand built logic to do that costs enough in power and design time to
> make it unappealing or no better than a good mono crt unless I resort
> to Gals/FPGAs (design effort and cost prohibitive for a one up).

There are (were?) a few vendors that made very nice single chip solutions
for converting base VGA into something an LCD could use.

Hitachi?

William Donzelli
william_at_ans.net
Received on Fri Jun 12 1998 - 20:25:00 BST