Patent ID: 7847795

Claim:
A display system comprising: a plurality of deformable micromirror devices communicatively coupled to a bus; and a bus controller communicatively coupled through the bus to each of the plurality of deformable micromirror devices, the bus controller comprising: a configurable bus interface having first and second modes of operation, the first mode of operation configured to interface with only one of the plurality of deformable micromirror devices, the second mode of operation configured to interface in parallel with each of the plurality of deformable micromirror devices; a multiplexer operable to switch the configurable bus interface between the first and second modes of operation; a first and a second set of input lines coupled to the multiplexer, the first set and second sets corresponding respectively to the first and second modes of operation; and wherein each input line of at least a subset of the first set of input lines is communicatively coupled to a respective input line of the second set of inputs lines.