Chapter · Screens
Before the wires
How much data a picture is, and why a screen is a panel, a controller, a backlight and a host that have to agree.
- 01How much data is a screen4 minEvery screen problem starts with arithmetic. Count the bits in one frame, divide by what the link can carry, and you know the floor before any protocol overhead is added.
- 02A screen is not one thing4 minThe word screen covers a panel, a backlight, a controller and sometimes a touch layer. Each can fail alone, and two questions sort them out. Where do the pixels live, and who owns the refresh timing?
Start at 01 and read down — the order is the order things get easier in. Or take the one with your part in it; every article stands on its own, and links back to whatever it needs.