2.9inch e-Paper (D)
 Specifications 
Customer 
Standard 
Description 
Model Name 
Date 
2.9” FLEXIBLE E-PAPER DISPLAY 
2.9inch e-Paper (D) 
2018/10/30 
Revision 
1.1 
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Table of Contents 
1. General Description....................................................
     1.1 Overview............................................................
     1.2 Feature ..............................................................
     1.3 Mechanical Specification........................................
     1.4  Mechanical Drawing of EPD module .......................
     1.5  Input/Output Terminals........................................
     1.6  Reference Circuit ................................................
2. Environmental............................................................
     2.1 Handling, Safety and Environmental Requirements...
     2.2  Reliability test.....................................................
3. Electrical Characteristics .............................................
     3.1  Absolute maximum rating.....................................
     3.2  Panel DC Characteristics.......................................
     3.3 Panel AC Characteristics........................................
     3.4 Power Consumption..............................................
4. Typical Operating Sequence.........................................
     4.1  Normal Operation Flow.........................................
     4.2  Reference Program Code......................................
5. Command Table.........................................................
6. Optical characteristics.................................................
     6.1  Specifications ....................................................
     6.2   Definition of contrast ratio...................................
     6.3   Reflection Ratio..................................................
     6.4   Bi-stability ........................................................
7. Point and line standard...............................................
8. Packing.....................................................................
9. Precautions ................................................................
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Revision History 
Rev.  Issued Date 
1.0  Sep.11.2018  Preliminary 
Revised Contents 
1.1  Oct.30.2018 
1. In Part 1.6): Modify Reference Circuit
2. In part 1-7): Updating the website address of DESPI.
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1. General Description
1.1 Over View
The  display which  use  the  flexible  substrate  as  base  plate,  with  interface  and  a 
reference  system design. The  2.9” active area  contains 296×128 pixels, and  has 
1-bit white/black full display capabilities. An integrated circuit contains gate buffer,
source buffer, interface, timing control logic, oscillator, DC-DC, SRAM, LUT, VCOM,
and border are supplied with each panel.
1.2  Features 
• High contrast
• High reflectance
• Ultra wide viewing angle
• Ultra low power consumption
• Pure reflective mode
• Bi-stable
• Commercial temperature range
• Landscape,  portrait mode
• Antiglare hard-coated front-surface
• Low current deep sleep mode
• On chip display RAM
• Waveform stored in On-chip  OTP
• Serial peripheral interface available
• On-chip  oscillator
• On-chip  booster  and  regulator  control  for  generating  VCOM,  Gate  and  source
driving voltage
• I2C Signal Master Interface to read external temperature sensor
• Available in COG package IC thickness  280um
1.3  Mechanical Specifications 
Parameter 
Screen Size 
Display Resolution 
Active Area 
Pixel Pitch 
Pixel Configuration 
Outline Dimension 
Weight 
Specifications 
2.9 
296(H)×128(V) 
66.9(H)×29.06(V) 
0.227×0.226 
Square 
79.0(H)×36.7(V)  ×0.34(D) 
2±0.5
Unit 
Inch 
Pixel 
mm 
mm 
mm 
g 
Remark 
Dpi: 112 
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1. 5 Input/Output Terminals
1.5-1) Pin out List 
Pin #  Type  Single 
Description 
Remark 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 
20 
21 
22 
23 
24 
NC 
No connection and do not connect with other NC pins  Keep Open 
O 
O 
C 
C 
O 
GDR 
RESE 
VGL 
VGH 
TSCL 
I/O 
TSDA 
I 
O 
I 
I 
I 
BS1 
BUSY 
RES # 
D/C # 
CS # 
I/O 
I/O 
D0 
D1 
N-Channel MOSFET Gate Drive Control
Current Sense Input for the Control Loop 
Negative Gate driving voltage 
Positive Gate driving voltage 
I2C Interface to digital temperature sensor Clock pin
I2C Interface to digital temperature sensor Date pin
Bus selection pin 
Busy state output pin 
Reset 
Data /Command control pin 
Chip Select input pin 
serial clock pin (SPI) 
serial data pin (SPI) 
Note 1.5-5 
Note 1.5-4 
Note 1.5-3 
Note 1.5-2 
Note 1.5-1 
I 
I 
C 
C 
C 
C 
C 
C 
C 
VDDIO 
Power for interface logic pins 
VCI 
VSS 
VDD 
VPP 
VSH 
Power Supply pin for the chip 
Ground 
Core logic power pin 
Power Supply for OTP Programming 
Positive Source driving voltage 
PREVGH 
Power Supply pin for VGH and VSH 
VSL 
Negative Source driving voltage 
PREVGL 
Power Supply pin for VCOM, VGL and VSL 
VCOM 
VCOM driving voltage 
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Note 1.5-1:  This pin (CS#) is the chip select input connecting  to the MCU. The chip is 
enabled for MCU communication  only when  CS# is pulled Low. 
Note  1 . 5-2:  This  pin  (D/C#)  is  Data/Command  control  pin  connecting  to  the  MCU. 
When  the  pin  is  pulled  HIGH, the  data  will  be interpreted as data. When 
the pin is pulled Low, the data will be interpreted as command. 
Note 1.5-3:  This pin (RES#) is reset signal input.    The Reset is active Low. 
Note 1.5-4:  This pin (BUSY) is Busy state output pin. When Busy is low, the operation  of 
chip  should  not  be  interrupted  and  any commands  should not be issued to 
the module. The driver IC will put Busy pin low when the driver IC is working 
such as: 
- Outputting  display waveform; or
- Programming with OTP
- Communicating  with digital temperature sensor
Note 1. 5-5:  This pin (BS1)  is for 3-line SPI or 4-line SPI selection. When it is “Low”, 4-
line SPI is selected. When it is “High”, 3-line SPI (9 bits SPI) is selected. 
Please refer to below Table. 
Table: Bus interface selection 
BS1 
L 
H 
MPU Interface 
4-lines serial peripheral interface (SPI)
3-lines serial peripheral interface (SPI) – 9 bits SPI
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1.6  Reference Circuit 
Note: 
1. Inductor L1 is wire-wound  inductor. There are no special  requirements
for other parameters.
2. Suggests  using Si1304BDL or Si1308EDL TUBE MOS (Q1) , otherwise it
may affect the normal  boost of the circuit.
3. The default  circuit  is 4-wire SPI. If the user wants  to use 3-wire SPI, the
resistor R4 can be removed  when users  design.
4. Default  voltage value of all capacitors  is 50V.
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