Solomon Systech EPD Driver IC Honored at EE Awards Asia 2022

Article By : Stephen Las Marias

Solomon Systech Limited is a fabless company specializing in the design and development of IC products and system solutions that enable a wide range of display and touch applications for smartphones, tablets, TV and monitors, notebooks PCs, and other smart devices, including wearables, electronic shelf labels, healthcare devices, and smart home devices.

In particular, the company has been in the e-paper industry for over 20 years, working on display driver ICs for electronic shelf labels (ESL), among other forms of e-paper like e-signage and e-reader, etc. Apart from being environment-friendly, the company believes ESL has a great market potential as it also allows Internet of Things (IoT) applications such as inventory control, which can offer additional benefits such as improving efficiency for the end users.

Enhancing e-paper display with color

电子纸和ESL市场的开发方案旨在用于具有快速响应时间的多色显示屏，这是所罗门Systech的IC驱动程序需要解决的趋势，而不会损害功耗。

To support additional colors on the ESL, the company says it needs to have the right fab process to drive the FPL color.

根据该公司的说法，由于其技术专有技术已经足够成熟，可以开发三色驱动程序IC版本，因此他们开始研究它。

“我们已经成功地解决了这些挑战与供应商和客户并肩作用，”所罗门·苏斯特奇（Solomon Systech）首席执行官雷蒙德·王（Raymond Wang）说。

Compared to the old segment model, this display driver IC adapts to the active-matrix format, which allows the display content on ESLs to be altered freely—greatly increasing flexibility of ESLs’ usage.

Driven by high voltage when the display content needs to be updated, this display module consumes no power at all when the ESL is in static state showcasing the content, thereby ensuring low-power consumption, and making the device an environment-friendly product. In terms of color, Solomon Systech’s display driver IC has helped ESLs transform from black and white to tricolor—either black/white/red or black/white/yellow—providing more variety to the visuals.

EE奖亚洲, and future developments

对于带有用于彩色电泳显示器控制器的主动矩阵EPD驱动程序，所罗门Systech已获得了最主题的产品和技术类别的奖励EE奖亚洲2022.

Now in its second year,EE奖亚洲celebrates the innovation, creativity, and contributions of Asia’s engineering community that have made a difference in the way we work, live, communicate, and play over the past year.

“We feel privileged to receive the award as it is a recognition of our technological advancement in the industry. We shall continue to focus on our R&D to further improve our products,” Wang notes.

According to the company, they will continue to focus on developing solutions for ESL and e-signage applications, which are widely popular in Europe and growing in the United States and Asia. It is also gearing up to launch its four-color ESL very soon.

同时，在元元评估日益普及的情况下，该公司目前正在为虚拟和增强现实（VR/AR）应用程序开发高速接口IC。

“Hopefully, they will be ready to be launched to the market very soon and bring superior immersive experience to the end users,” Wang concludes.