The highly versatile and flexible LUXBEAM® 3000 Formatter Board is utilzing the DLP® Discovery™ 3000 chip set from Texas Instruments Inc. The LUXBEAM® 3000 enables a whole new range of products for industrial and emerging applications in Lithography, Microscopy, Scientific Instrumentation, Spectroscopy, Volumetric Displays and many others.
LUXBEAM board

VISITECH’s LUXBEAM® 3000 Formatter board enables direct and fast access to the digital micromirror display (DMD), creating binary or grey scale patterns with high update rates. The FPGA chip allows flexible adaptation and re-programming for customized solutions. The LUXBEAM® 3000 provides high flexibility to facilitate exiting new products and to customize boards and functionalities exactly to demand.

Many years in projector development and several projects for industrial applications build VISITECH’s expertise to additionally supply light engine development and system integration services. Our patended LEDBEAM™ technology enables integration with light sources providing extremely powerful features like high brightness, extreme color purity and uniformity, long lifetime and low power consumption.

Options and applications:

  • Customization of DMD™ formatter boards based on  LUXBEAM® 3000.
  • Integration of LUXBEAM® light engine into products engineered to application.
  • Board and light engine development and prototyping for industrial and emerging applications with focus on:
    • Top quality
    • Short time to market
    • Low development cost
    • Low BOM cost
    • Marginal technical risk
    • Low commercial risk

 Technical data:

  • Dimensioins: 140 x 90 mm2
  • Power consumption: <15W
  • Operating temp: 10 - 65oC
  • Storage temp: -40 - +80oC
  • Bit sequence greyscale depth: 1 - 16 bits
  • Bit sequence res: 5ns
  • User defined bit sequence
    (bit weight, duration, row)
  • Sequence definition development tools

Greyscale Levels

 Frames/Sec

 2

16300

 4

 8000

 32

 1300

 256

  140

 Technical data (cont.):

  • High bandwidth LVDS input, 8.5 - 12.8 GBit/sec
  • Interface: LVDS 16+1 pairs
  • High capacity frame buffer, 0.5 - 4 GBit
  • Double frame buffer architecture, simultaneous write/read at 12.8 GBits/sec
  • User GPIO for application expansion
  • Run-time configuration via I2C
  • Sequence Trigger-In & Trigger-Out for multiple synchronized boards (e.g. RGB, daisy chain)

Display characteristics:

  • Resolution: XGA (1024 x 768 pixels)
  • Size of active area: 14.0 x 10.5 mm
  • Pixel pitch: 13.68 µm
  • VIS, UV, IR enhanced options
  • Mirror tilt: +/- 12o
  • Min. ON-time: 20 µsec
  • Max. ON-time: 10 sec (w/o any motion)
  • Incident power at 400 - 800 nm: Max 45W
  • Illumination < 400 nm: Max 45 W/cm2