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Design of Power IC Driver for AMOLED

AMOLED 용 Power IC Driver 설계

  • Ra, Yoo-Chan (Department of Information Communication, Namseoul University)
  • 라유찬 (남서울대학교 정보통신공학과)
  • Received : 2018.02.27
  • Accepted : 2018.05.04
  • Published : 2018.05.31
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Abstract

Because the brightness of an AMOLED is determined by the flowing current, each pixel of AMOLED operates via A current driving method. Therefore, it is necessary to supply power to adjust the amount of current according to THE user's requirement for AMOLED driving. In this study, an IP driver block was designed and a simulation was conducted for an AMOLED display, which supplies power as selected by users. The IP driver design focused on regulating the output power due to the OLED characteristics for the diode electric current according to the voltage to be activated by pulse-skipping mode (PSM) under low loads, and 1.5 MHz pulse-width modulation (PWM) for medium/high loads. The IP driver was designed to eliminate the ringing effects appearing from the dis-continue mode (DCM) of the step-up converter. The ringing effects destroy the power switch within the IC, or increase the EMI to the surrounding elements. The IP driver design minimized this through a ringing killer circuit. Mobile applications were considered to enable true shut-down capability by designing the standby current to fall below $1{\mu}A$ to disable it. The driver proposed in this paper can be applied effectively to the same system as the AMOLED display dual power management circuit.

AMOLED는 흐르는 전류에 의해 밝기가 결정되므로 AMOLED의 각 픽셀은 전류 구동 방식으로 동작하므로 AMOLED 구동을 위해서는 사용자의 요구에 의해 전류의 양을 조절할 수 있는 전원이 필요하다. 이에 본 논문에서는 사용자에 의해 설정된 전원을 공급하는 AMOLED 디스플레이용 IP의 driver 블록을 설계하고 이에 대한 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다. 설계된 IP의 driver는 전압에 대해 다이오드 전류 곡선을 가지는 AMOLED의 특성 때문에 출력 전압 레귤레이션에 중점을 두었고, low load시에는 PSM(Pulse-skipping mode)로 동작하고 medium/high load시에는 1.5MHz PWM(Pulse-width modulation) mode로 동작한다. 설계된 IP의 driver는 step-up converter의 DCM(Dis-Continue Mode)에서 발생하는 ringing 현상을 제거하도록 설계하였다. Ringing 현상은 IC내의 power switch를 파괴하거나 주위의 소자들에 EMI를 증가시키는 역할을 하게 된다. 설계된 IP의 driver에서는 ringing killer 회로를 통해 이를 최소화하였다. Mobile applications를 고려하여 disable시에는 standby current를 $1{\mu}A$이하로 설계하여 true shut-down이 가능하도록 하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 드라이버는 AMOLED의 디스플레이용 듀얼 파워 매니지먼트회로와 같은 시스템에 효율적으로 적용할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

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