Fig.1 Pdp Module Drive Circuit Pdp Scan Driver Ic

A shift in consumer electronics from analog to digital technology is underway, and the television industry is transitioning from CRT to flat panel display (FPD) technology. With the increasing popularity of FPDs, the market for plasma display panels (PDPs) has also grown rapidly. The FPD market is divided according to screen size: sizes of 30 inches and smaller use liquid crystal display (LCD) technology, sizes from 40 to 50 inches use PDP technology, and larger sizes use projector technology. However, competition among the different FPD technologies is intensifying and the market division according to screen size is becoming less prevalent. Within this context, PDP technology is being required to provide such performance improvements as lower power consumption and higher luminous efficient, as well as lower cost. There are two types of PDP driver ICs, a scan driver IC that selects scan lines and an address driver (or data driver IC) that selects data lines. The characteristics of the driver ICs affect the quality of the image display, and because many IC devices are used in a single panel, these driver ICs are required to provide high performance at a low cost. Fuji Electric develops both scan driver ICs and address driver ICs and this paper describes the technology used in Fuji Electric’s FD3284F PDP scan driver IC which features high current and low on-state resistance.