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Techwell
Automotive Display ICs
About Techwell
Techwell is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, markets and sells mixed signal integrated circuits for multiple digital
video applications in the consumer, security surveillance and automotive markets, including advanced TVs, multifunction LCD
monitors, DVD Recorders, security surveillance systems and in-car LCD displays. Founded in 1997, we currently have over 125
employees and are headquartered in San Jose, California, with additional R&D and sales activities in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan
and China. NASDAQ: TWLL
TW8827
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
Two 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 combinations:
2 composite video
1 S-Video
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
2008 Techwell Inc. All rights reserved.
LED Controller
Boost-up
DC and PWM Dimming Control
Built-in Open LED Protection
1MHz fixed Switching Frequency
Resistor-programmable LED Current
16bits Digital RGB/YCbCr Inputs
Supports 18-bits RGB/YCbCr digital input
Supports both interlaced and progressive ITU 656
source
Built-in Microcontroller
Support external SPI Interface
Support I2C Master interface with GPIO
Support 2 LED signal interface with GPIO
Support UART interface with GPIO
Support IR or interrupt with GPIO
TFT Panel Support
Supports a wide variety of Analog active matrix TFT panels
Supports analog panel up to WQVGA (480 x 234)
Font OSD
Built-in OSD controller with integrated character ROM and
programmable RAM font- 202 ROM & 75 RAM fonts
Multi-window OSD support with color pallet
Support OSD overlay with alpha blending
Miscellaneous
Supports 2-wire serial bus interface
Temperature rating: -40 C to +85 C
Spread spectrum PLL
Low-speed ADC for KEY scan
Programmable panel VCOM offset control
5V tolerant I/O
Power-down mode
Typical power consumption less than TBD
Single 27MHz crystal
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, contrast
Sharpness control with vertical peaking
Programmable color transient improvement control
Independent RGB gain and offset controls
Panorama / Water-glass scaling
YCbCr hue adjustment
Programmable Gamma correction tables
Built-in YCbCr to RGB color space converter
Black/White Stretch
Programmable favorite color enhancement
Power Management
Supports Panel power sequencing
Supports DPMS for monitor power management
1.8 / 3.3 V operation
Ultra low cost, highly integrated
LCD controller for analog panels
Ultra low cost, highly integrated
LCD controller for analog panels
Timing Controller (TCON)
Support programmable interface signals for control
Column (source) driver / row (gate) driver