Versatile driving system for non-root-mean-square responding liquid crystal displays

The authors present a versatile stand-alone driving system specially designed for addressing non-root-mean-square responding liquid crystal displays. It is suitable for driving surface stabilised ferroelectric, antiferroelectric and zenithal bistable nematic liquid crystal test displays. The system has sixty-four channels with nearly 140 V swing for row driving and sixty-four channels with 50 V swing for column driving, and can drive displays with 64 rows and 64 columns and emulate matrix addressing of up to 16 384 rows at video rate. It has been successfully used for driving ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystal displays.