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VR goggles display driver board
« on: December 23, 2012, 04:52:14 am »
I've got two pairs of these HeadPlay VR goggles however they're missing the driver box which provides the video inputs.

Since they're pretty much useless without it i thought i'd open one up and check what, if any, electronics they have inside.
Who knows, maybe i can hack up a composite input myself.

There's two chips in the goggles, a MSP430 micro running at 8mhz and a DS90CF386 LVDS Receiver.

I'm thinking the micro either does OSD overlay or backlight pwm or both.
The LVDS receiver looks to take the differential channels coming in on the cable and convert them to RGB vsync + hsync.

The thing that's weird is how it runs the actual LCD panel.
There should be a driver somewhere since LCDs don't run from RGB vsync/hsync directly.
Seems unlikely the 8mhz msp430 has enough power to drive the raw lcd lines at 30fps directly.
Any ideas how it might work?

EDIT: looking at the datasheet i noticed something i missed before. The RGB out of that chip isnt analog, it's 8bit digital per color. So maybe the MSP430 would have enough power to handle V/H addressing while the digital color data comes in from the LVDS Receiver directly.

I've connected power up, all the regs/ICs get power and the 8mhz oscillator runs but there's nothing on the lcd.
Probably doesn't run until it gets a video signal.

DS90CF386 datasheet
http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/ds90cf386.pdf

MSP430F1222
http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/msp430f1222.pdf





« Last Edit: December 23, 2012, 11:11:16 am by Psi »
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