A Wide-Band LCD Segment Driver IC without Sacrificing Low Output-Offset Variation (Special Section on High-Performance MOS Analog Circuits)

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This paper describes a segment driver IC for high-quality liquid-crystal-displays (LCDs). Major design issues in the segment driver IC are a wide signal bandwidth and excessive output-offset variation both within a chip and between chips. After clarifying the trade-off relation between the signal bandwidth and the output-offset variation originated from conventional sample-and-hold (S/H) circuits, two wide-band S/H circuits with low output-offset variation have been introduced. The basic ideas for the proposed S/H circuits are to improve timing of the sampling pulses applied to MOS analog switches and to prevent channel charge injection onto a storage capacitor when the switches turn off. The inter-chip offset-cancellation technique has been also introduced by using an additional S/H circuit. Two test chips were implemented using the above S/H circuits for demonstration purposes. The intra-chip output-offset standard deviation of 9.5 mV_<rms> with a -3dB bandwidth of 50 MHz was achieved. The inter-chip output-offset standard deviation was reduced to 5.1 mV_<rms> by using the inter-chip offset-cancellation technique. The evaluation of picture quality of an LCD using the chips shows the applicability of the proposed approaches to displays used for multimedia applications.
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1994-02-25