Abstract:
This invention relates to a high-efficiency electronic circuit (1) for generating and regulating a supply voltage (Vout), comprising a charge-pump voltage multiplier (2) which is associated with an oscillator (3) and has an output connected to a voltage regulator (4) in order to ultimately output said supply voltage (Vout). Advantageously, the circuit comprises a first hysteresis comparator (5) having as inputs the regulator (4) output and the multiplier (2) output, and comprises a second hysteresis comparator (6) having as inputs a reference potential (Vrif) and a partition (K) of the voltage (Vout) presented on the regulator (4) output. The comparators are structurally and functionally independent of each other, and their outputs are coupled to the oscillator (3) through a logic circuit (7) to modulate the oscillator (3) operation.
Abstract:
Presented is a new memory controller for use in a display, such as a liquid crystal display of the type comprising a set of first drivers (24), and a set of second drivers (26), a portion of which can be converted to said first drivers (26b). Also included is a RAM memory (62) structured to accept data at an input and output said data to the sets of first (24) and second (26) drivers when a master clock signal is received at said RAM memory (62). The memory controller includes a clock signal generator structured to generate said master clock signal; and a control signal generator circuit structured to generate control signals for said RAM memory (62) and said sets of first (24) and second (26) drivers. An important advantage to this memory controller is that it includes a set of auxiliary registers (52) structured to temporarily store a first portion of said data received from said RAM memory (62) after receiving a slave clock cycle, and said set of auxiliary registers (52) structured to output said first portion of data into said portion of said second drivers converted to said first drivers (26b) after receiving said master clock signal. A method is also disclosed that uses the above structure in order to perform the steps of using a folded memory as a way to increase the utilization rate of memory within the display controller.