Enabling Dual Display Support on Toradex Verdin iMX8M Plus for Automotive Digital Cockpit Solutions

In the ever-evolving landscape of automotive technology, the demand for sophisticated digital cockpit solutions continues to soar. As vehicles become smarter and more connected, automotive manufacturers seek innovative ways to enhance the driving experience. Recently, a prominent automotive client approached SiBrain Technologies Pvt Ltd with a unique requirement—to incorporate dual display support into their digital cockpit solution, with the primary display situated in the driver's cabin and the secondary display at the back passenger seat. Meeting this demand proved to be a stimulating challenge for our team of expert embedded engineers.?

SiBrain Technologies Pvt Ltd team had already ported Android 13 and Android 14 on Toradex Verdin iMX8M Plus platform for this customer and this new solutioning was part of the bigger project around developing a #digitalcockpit.

By default Verdin platform already supports a single #HDMI by Samsung Semiconductor (HDMI 5) through which we can enable a primary display but to enable the secondary display we can integrate a MIPI DSI to HDMI bridge so that the DSI format data can be traversed to HDMI and can be displayed. Our team leveraged Lontium Semiconductor【龙迅半导体（合肥）股份有限公司】 's LT8912 MIPI DSI to HDMI bridge and integrated it to the module. We had to make a lot of customization at the #bootloader, #AndroidFramework and even at the Linux #kernel (5.10 and 6.1), even to accustom the integration of Lontium MIPI DSI to HDMI bridge; our team managed to resolve couple of critical bugs.

The crux of the challenge lay in maximizing the capabilities of the Verdin platform, while keeping the performance at the optimum level and our team at SiBrain Technologies Pvt Ltd managed to achieve that in the defined timeline! Through collaboration, innovation, and technical expertise, we continue to drive forward, shaping the future of automotive cockpit solutions.

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