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Pinouts for LED panel connectors

A project log for BARCO NX-4 GROUP REVERSING ADVENTURE

This a project for a group of folks working to reverse engineer the Barco NX-4 LED panels.

moddermikemodder_mike 10/24/2017 at 04:210 Comments

As viewed looking at the rear of the LED panel.  The panel is arranged as a 36row x 32col grid.  LEDs are split into 16 left and 16 right columns, with every six rows driven by three cascaded drivers.  From right to left, the first driver drives Red subpixels, the second Green and the third Blue.  Anode voltage is switched to each of the six rows of LEDs in sequence via a transistor controlled by the CPLD.

There are three I2C devices on the LED panel, an EEPROM, a temperature sensor and an ambient light sensor used for brightness calibration.

Most of the LED driver control pins are brought out to the data connector by way of two buffers.  The remaining signals (SOUT for each driver string) are fed to the CPLD.

Power connector:

4GND
3GND
2+4.56V
1+4.56V

Data Connector:

CPLD_PIN_6*6030VIN
CPLD_PIN_44*5929VIN
CPLD_PIN_43*5828GND
CPLD_PIN_42*5727I2C_SDA
CPLD_PIN_41*5626I2C_SCL
LED_GSCLK5525LED_BLANK
LED_XLAT5424LED_MODE
CPLD_PIN_8*5323CPLD_PIN_2*
CPLD_PIN_5*5222CPLD_PIN_3*
+3.3V5121+3.3V
+3.3V5020+3.3V
+3.3V4919+3.3V
+3.3V4818+3.3V
GND4717GND
GND4616LED_XERR
GND4515LED_CAL_SIN
LED_R6_SIN4414GND
GND4313LED_R5_SIN
LED_R4_SIN4212GND
GND4111LED_L6_SIN
LED_L5_SIN4010GND
GND399LED_L4_SIN
LED_R3_SIN388GND
GND377LED_R2_SIN
LED_R1_SIN366GND
GND355LED_L3_SIN
LED_L2_SIN344GND
GND333LED_L1_SIN
GND322GND
GND311LED_SCLK

*CPLD pins are not yet mapped to functions.  CPLD functions include cycling through rows, routing SOUT data from LED drivers, and six pins mapped to transistors scattered across the board with yet unknown function.

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