Patent ID: 8300033

Claim:
An apparatus for driving a display panel, comprising: a timing controller structured to generate a first signal, second signals, and a third signal to drive the display panel; a plurality of source drivers structured to drive data lines of the display panel, at least a first source driver of the source drivers being structured to directly receive the first signal from the timing controller when the third signal is in a first logic state; at least one point-to-point connection link directly coupling each of the plurality of source drivers to the timing controller, the at least one point-to-point connection link structured to transmit the second signals; at least one serial cascade connection link cascaded between the first source driver and a second source driver, the at least one serial cascade connection link structured to transmit the first signal from the first source driver to the second source driver when the third signal is in the first logic state, wherein the timing controller is structured to directly transmit the second signals to each of the plurality of source drivers.