In our opinion, reverse engineering may be one of the best ways to tease your brain. [Andy] just did that by reverse engineering the Sony Ericsson Vivaz high resolution LCD (cached copy here). In his
(very) nicely written article, [Andy] explains all the steps that led
him to the result shown in the picture above.
He started by finding the repair manual
of the Vivaz, to discover that the display could be interfaced with
8080 type parallel signals. That meant that he could use a standard
microcontroller without high speed
buses to interface with it, in this case the STM32F4. Next in his
adventure, [Andy] ordered the appropriate connector and took a more
educated guess for the onboard microcontroller. A long Google search
brought up the R61523 from Renesas. So he designed his breakout board,
got it produced and a few hours later a nice picture was being shown on
the LCD. He even took the time to compare the original display with the
clone he found on the webs, and modified his graphics library to support this display.
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