Intersil Corporation announced the ISL78365 laser diode driver for automotive heads-up display (HUD) systems. The device pulses four high intensity lasers up to 750mA for projecting full-HD color video onto the windshield. The ISL78365’s higher current and faster switching speed enables HUDs with high resolution, high color-depth and high frame-rate projections.
This quad-channel device is a complete solution for driving lasers in the scanned-MEMS laser projection systems being deployed in next generation autos. The ISL78365 provides sub-1.5ns rise and fall times for faster switching speed than competitive devices, resulting in high frame rate, HD color video. The device also offers 10-bit color and 10-bit scale resolution to support a wide variety of contrast levels for each driver channel. And its flexible synchronous parallel video interface supports pixel rates up to 150MHz or 1900 pixels per line.