E Ink and Himax Announce New Color ePaper Timing Controller T2000 with Advanced Features
TapTechNews August 15th news, E Ink and Himax Technologies jointly announced today that they collaborate to develop the next-generation color ePaper Timing Controller T2000, which can drive screen updates with faster speed and less power, supporting E Ink's full series of color ePaper technology platforms and targeting the reading, advertising signage and other ePaper application markets.
E Ink Technology introduced that T2000 is a significant progress in the timing control chip technology after the release of T1000 in 2019. T2000 has a built-in color imaging algorithm and supports the latest full-color ePaper display technologies such as EInk Kaleido3, EInk Gallery3 and EInk Spectra6. Compared with T1000, the color rendering speed of T2000 is more than 10 times faster.
In addition, T2000 has a built-in handwriting operation processing unit developed by E Ink, which can support the handwriting application of ePaper notebooks without going through the system-on-a-chip (SoC), and accelerate the screen sensing feedback speed. The chip is equipped with Himax's multi-threaded image drive accelerator technology to improve the writing experience on the ePaper screen.
T2000 is also a key core component of color electronic displays, responsible for generating and managing the timing signals that drive the screen and controlling the switching time and duration waveform of the driving voltage. T2000 is designed specifically for ePaper and has a temperature compensation function to ensure that the screen is not affected by the environment.
T2000 supports interfaces such as MIPI-DSI/USB (3.0)/SPI, and the maximum resolution of the supported ePaper screen is upgraded to 4K UHD (3840×2160), and the maximum frame rate is increased to 150 Hz, and the transmission speed of the standard MIPI of the display screen is also upgraded to a maximum of 1 Gbps.
In terms of power consumption, T2000 is claimed to consume less than 300 mW in the working mode and less than 2 mW in the sleep mode, prolonging the charging cycle of ePaper products.
E Ink Technology has not disclosed which products will be equipped with the T2000 chip yet. You can follow TapTechNews for follow-up reports on color ePaper products.