Battery cell configuration for organic light emitting diode display in modern smartphones and tablet-PCs

  • Authors:
  • Donghwa Shin;Kitae Kim;Naehyuck Chang;Massoud Pedram

  • Affiliations:
  • Seoul National University;Seoul National University;Seoul National University;University of Southern California

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

A modern smartphone or tablet-PC is typically equipped a high-resolution and large-size display, which is a primary power consumer. In spite of the relatively high power efficiency of organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays, the integrated display sub-system exhibits low energy efficiency due to power losses in the battery and the boost voltage conversion. In this paper, we formulize the system energy efficiency in terms of the battery internal losses as well the converter efficiency considering the OLED power supply condition. We also analyze the effect of recently introduced dynamic (driver) supply voltage scaling technique for OLED displays on the overall system efficiency based on the system-level power profiling result. We introduce the optimal battery setup for different sizes and resolutions of the OLED display for modern smartphones and tablet-PCs.