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Beijing Leyard Adopts Macroblock’s MBI5030 LED Drivers on Carpet-like LED Display During the Olympics Opening Ceremony

2008-11-07 13: 59

Macroblock will showcase its technology breakthroughs at Electronica 2008


The 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony was illuminated by various LED applications which contributed to many LED magic shows and surprised all over the world. Among a giant LED paper scroll (22m W x147m L) , a masterpiece of carpet-like 1300m2 LED display (as shown in the picture) processing images gloriously, is produced by Beijing Leyard Electronics Technology, a leading manufacturer of LED displays in China. In order to perform images with fidelity, Leyard adopted Macroblock’s 570,000 LED drivers featured with S-PWM technology in their LED display.

          source: Beijing Leyard
 
”It is our honor to join in this historical moment and perform the skillful techniques and creativity of Leyard’s LED display applications in the opening ceremony.” Li Jun, the Chairman of Leyard remarked. “In order to satisfy the high demand of video quality by thousands of cameras and SNGs, the LED display requires high grayscale and high definition”, he continued. “Therefore, we choose to corporate with Macroblock again in Olympics project by adopting S-PWM embedded LED drivers- MBI5030 to increase visual refresh rate and improve image process.”

          source: Beijing Leyard

MBI5030, the world’ s first 16-bit PWM embedded LED driver with patented S-PWM technology, featuring 16-bit gray scale control, supports up to 65,536 gray scales for color depths. MBI5030 improves visual refresh rate up to 7680Hz (@ GCLK=8MHz) that facilitates CCD cameras and video cameras to capture the full video images in real time without flickers. With MBI5030, Macroblock assures to assist the customers to reach high-level LED display with features including high grayscale, visual refresh rate, and most importantly, to easily achieve technology breakthroughs and production advantages. 

Macroblock positions itself with outstanding technology in the LED driver industry with dedicated effort in the fields of LED display, LED lighting, and LED backlighting. Macroblock is going to showcase its technology breakthroughs realized in the new products for LED display and LED lighting at Macroblock booth A5.532 at Electronica 2008 from 11th to 14th November in Munich, Germany.

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