Patent ID: 8634006

Claim:
A method of providing a signal to a planar array, the method comprising: electrically connecting a plurality of pre-drivers along edges of a planar array to at least one conducting element; electrically connecting the plurality of pre-drivers to a plurality of front-end drivers, one pre-driver per front-end driver, wherein the pre-drivers are serially connected to respective front-end drivers of the plurality of front-end drivers via substantially equal length interconnects, the planar array comprises a matrix of pixels, the plurality of front-end drivers comprise front-end drivers located along a perimeter of the planar array but not located with any of the pixels in the matrix of pixels, and front-end drivers located with pixels in the planar array along diagonals of the matrix, and the matrix of pixels includes pixels which are not located with any of the plurality of front-end drivers; and providing the signal substantially simultaneously from the plurality of pre-drivers to the plurality of front-end drivers via the substantially equal length interconnects, thereby providing a reduced skew time between the pixels.