i.MX51 EVK Linux Reference Manual
Freescale Semiconductor
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Chapter 13
i.MX5 Dual Display
This section describes how to setup dual-display on i.MX51 EVKplatform.
13.1
Hardware Operation
i.MX51 multimedia application processes incorporate the Image Processing Unit(IPUv3) hardware image
processing accelerator. There are two Display Interfaces(DI) within IPUv3, which provide connection to
external display devices and related devices. The external display devices can be a LCD display panel,
which connects with DI directly. The related devices may be embedded in chip or integrated on EVK
boards. TV Encoder(TVE) is the only embedded device which connects with DI1 in i.MX51 chips. One
LVDS chip, one DVI chip and one VGA chip are integrated in i.MX51 EVK platform to convert the legacy
parallel signals to related display signal. As there are two DIs within IPUv3, we can support dual-display
feature, i.e., each of the two DIs can support an externel display device simultanously. As long as the
hardware bandwidth is not exceeded, MX5 EVK platform can drive every possible dual-display feature
provided the board design.
Table 8.1 shows all the external display devices can be connected with i.MX51 EVK platform and i.MX53
EVK platform:
Note, on i.MX51 EVK platform, VGA and DVI connector can not be used simultanously, because VGA
signals are lead out with a DVI connector.
For the detailed information about the external display devices on MX5 EVK platform, see the relevant
EVK board schematics.
13.2
Software Operation
The user should setup a correct bootup command line if he or she wants to enable dual-display feature. The
user may follow these steps to set the bootup command line for display related options:
Table 13-1.
EVK Platform
DI Number
External display device
i.MX51
0
1) DVI connector
2) LVDS display panel(driven by LVDS chip)
1
1) CLAA WVGA dislplay panel
2) TV(driven by TVE)
3) VGA(driven by VGA chip)
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