SOLOMON SYSTECH  
SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNICAL DATA 
 
  
 
SSD1357 
 
 
Advance Information
128 RGB x 128 Dot Matrix 
OLED/PLED Segment/Common Driver with Controller  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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without notice. 
 
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SSD1357 
 
Copyright  2019 Solomon Systech Limited 
Rev 1.1 
P 1/36 
Apr 2019 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Appendix: IC Revision history of SSD1357 Specification 
Version 
0.10 
0.20 
1.0 
1.1 
Change Items 
1st release 
 
P. 9-10 Updated D_SEL and IREF in Pin Description 
P. 19 Updated 256 color depth description in GDDRAM 
P. 22 Updated SEG/COM Drivers description 
P. 26 Updated Power ON and OFF sequence description 
P. 28 Updated DC Characteristic parameters 
P. 29 Updated AC Characteristic parameters 
P. 35 Updated application example 
 
Updated to Advance Information 
P. 20 Updated Table 6-8 Read Data bus usage under different bus width and color 
depth mode 
P. 21 Updated SEG/COM Driving block description 
P. 22 Updated Figure 6-13 Segment and Common Driver Block Diagram 
Effective Date 
27-May-16 
23-Sep-16 
09-Dec-16 
03-Apr-19 
Solomon Systech 
 
Apr 2019  P 2/36 
Rev 1.1  SSD1357  
 CONTENTS 
1  GENERAL DESCRIPTION ....................................................................................................... 6 
2  FEATURES .................................................................................................................................. 6 
3  ORDERING INFORMATION................................................................................................... 6 
4  BLOCK DIAGRAM .................................................................................................................... 7 
5  PIN DESCRIPTION .................................................................................................................... 8 
6  FUNCTIONAL BLOCK DESCRIPTIONS ............................................................................ 11 
6.1.1 
6.1.2 
6.1.3 
6.1.4 
6.1.5 
6.1  MCU INTERFACE SELECTION ............................................................................................................................. 11 
MCU Parallel 6800-series Interface ......................................................................................................... 11 
MCU Parallel 8080-series Interface ......................................................................................................... 12 
MCU Serial Interface (4-wire SPI) ........................................................................................................... 13 
MCU Serial Interface (3-wire SPI) ........................................................................................................... 14 
MCU I2C Interface .................................................................................................................................... 15 
COMMAND DECODER ......................................................................................................................................... 18 
OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY TIME GENERATOR .................................................................................... 18 
RESET CIRCUIT .................................................................................................................................................. 19 
GDDRAM ......................................................................................................................................................... 19 
GDDRAM structure ................................................................................................................................... 19 
Data bus to RAM mapping under different input mode ............................................................................. 20 
SEG/COM DRIVING BLOCK ............................................................................................................................... 21 
SEG / COM DRIVERS ........................................................................................................................................ 22 
GRAY SCALE DECODER ..................................................................................................................................... 25 
POWER ON AND OFF SEQUENCE ....................................................................................................................... 26 
6.5.1 
6.5.2 
6.2 
6.3 
6.4 
6.5 
6.6 
6.7 
6.8 
6.9 
7  MAXIMUM RATINGS ............................................................................................................. 27 
8  DC CHARACTERISTICS ........................................................................................................ 28 
9  AC CHARACTERISTICS ........................................................................................................ 29 
10  APPLICATION EXAMPLE .................................................................................................... 35 
 
 
SSD1357 
Rev 1.1 
P 3/36 
Apr 2019 
 
Solomon Systech 
 
 
TABLES 
TABLE 3-1: ORDERING INFORMATION...................................................................................................................................6 
TABLE 5-1: PIN DESCRIPTION ................................................................................................................................................8 
TABLE 5-2: BUS INTERFACE SELECTION ...............................................................................................................................9 
TABLE 6-1 : MCU INTERFACE ASSIGNMENT UNDER DIFFERENT BUS INTERFACE MODE ...................................................... 11 
TABLE 6-2 : CONTROL PINS OF 6800 INTERFACE ................................................................................................................. 11 
TABLE 6-3 : CONTROL PINS OF 8080 INTERFACE ................................................................................................................. 13 
TABLE 6-4 : CONTROL PINS OF 4-WIRE SERIAL INTERFACE ................................................................................................. 13 
TABLE 6-5 : CONTROL PINS OF 3-WIRE SERIAL INTERFACE ................................................................................................. 14 
TABLE 6-6: 65K COLOR DEPTH GRAPHIC DISPLAY DATA RAM STRUCTURE ..................................................................... 19 
TABLE 6-7 : WRITE DATA BUS USAGE UNDER DIFFERENT BUS WIDTH AND COLOR DEPTH MODE ........................................ 20 
TABLE 6-8 : READ DATA BUS USAGE UNDER DIFFERENT BUS WIDTH AND COLOR DEPTH MODE .......................................... 20 
TABLE 7-1 : MAXIMUM RATINGS ........................................................................................................................................ 27 
TABLE 9-1 : AC CHARACTERISTICS .................................................................................................................................... 29 
TABLE 9-2 : 6800-SERIES MCU PARALLEL INTERFACE TIMING CHARACTERISTICS ........................................................... 30 
TABLE 9-3 : 8080-SERIES MCU PARALLEL INTERFACE TIMING CHARACTERISTICS ........................................................... 31 
TABLE 9-4 : SERIAL INTERFACE TIMING CHARACTERISTICS (4-WIRE SPI).......................................................................... 32 
TABLE 9-5 : SERIAL INTERFACE TIMING CHARACTERISTICS (3-WIRE SPI).......................................................................... 33 
TABLE 9-6 : I2C INTERFACE TIMING CHARACTERISTICS ..................................................................................................... 34 
 
 
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Apr 2019  P 4/36 
Rev 1.1  SSD1357  
FIGURES 
FIGURE 4-1: SSD1357 BLOCK DIAGRAM  .............................................................................................................................7 
FIGURE 6-1 : DATA READ BACK PROCEDURE - INSERTION OF DUMMY READ ....................................................................... 12 
FIGURE 6-2 : EXAMPLE OF WRITE PROCEDURE IN 8080 PARALLEL INTERFACE MODE ......................................................... 12 
FIGURE 6-3 : EXAMPLE OF READ PROCEDURE IN 8080 PARALLEL INTERFACE MODE ........................................................... 12 
FIGURE 6-4 : DISPLAY DATA READ BACK PROCEDURE - INSERTION OF DUMMY READ ......................................................... 13 
FIGURE 6-5 : WRITE PROCEDURE IN 4-WIRE SERIAL INTERFACE MODE ............................................................................... 14 
FIGURE 6-6 : WRITE PROCEDURE IN 3-WIRE SERIAL INTERFACE MODE ............................................................................... 14 
FIGURE 6-7 : I2C-BUS DATA FORMAT .................................................................................................................................. 16 
FIGURE 6-8 : DEFINITION OF THE START AND STOP CONDITION.......................................................................................... 17 
FIGURE 6-9 : DEFINITION OF THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT CONDITION .................................................................................... 17 
FIGURE 6-10 : DEFINITION OF THE DATA TRANSFER CONDITION ......................................................................................... 17 
FIGURE 6-11 : OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY TIME GENERATOR .............................................................................. 18 
FIGURE 6-12 : IREF CURRENT SETTING BY RESISTOR VALUE............................................................................................... 21 
FIGURE 6-13 : SEGMENT AND COMMON DRIVER BLOCK DIAGRAM .................................................................................... 22 
FIGURE 6-14 : SEGMENT AND COMMON DRIVER SIGNAL WAVEFORM ................................................................................ 23 
FIGURE 6-15 : GRAY SCALE CONTROL IN SEGMENT ........................................................................................................... 24 
FIGURE 6-16 : RELATION BETWEEN GDDRAM CONTENT AND GRAY SCALE TABLE ENTRY FOR THREE COLORS IN 65K 
COLOR MODE ............................................................................................................................................................... 25 
FIGURE 6-17 : ILLUSTRATION OF RELATION BETWEEN GRAPHIC DISPLAY RAM VALUE AND GRAY SCALE CONTROL .......... 25 
FIGURE 6-18 : THE POWER ON SEQUENCE .......................................................................................................................... 26 
FIGURE 6-19 : THE POWER OFF SEQUENCE ........................................................................................................................ 26 
FIGURE 9-1 : 6800-SERIES MCU PARALLEL INTERFACE CHARACTERISTICS ........................................................................ 30 
FIGURE 9-2 : 8080-SERIES MCU PARALLEL INTERFACE CHARACTERISTICS ........................................................................ 31 
FIGURE 9-3 : SERIAL INTERFACE CHARACTERISTICS (4-WIRE SPI) ...................................................................................... 32 
FIGURE 9-4 : SERIAL INTERFACE CHARACTERISTICS (3-WIRE SPI) ...................................................................................... 33 
FIGURE 9-5 : I2C INTERFACE TIMING CHARACTERISTICS ..................................................................................................... 34 
FIGURE 10-1 : SSD1357Z APPLICATION EXAMPLE FOR 16-BIT 8080-PARALLEL INTERFACE MODE ..................................... 35 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SSD1357 
Rev 1.1 
P 5/36 
Apr 2019 
 
Solomon Systech 
 
 
1  GENERAL DESCRIPTION 
 
SSD1357 is a single-chip CMOS OLED/PLED driver with controller for organic/polymer light emitting 
diode dot-matrix graphic display. It consists of 384 segments and 128 commons output, supporting up to 
128RGB x 128 dot matrix display. This IC is designed for Common Cathode type OLED/PLED panel. 
 
SSD1357  has  embedded  Graphic  Display  Data  RAM  (GDDRAM).  Data/Commands  are  sent  from 
general MCU through the hardware selectable 8, 16 bits 6800-/8080-series compatible Parallel Interface, 
I2C  Interface,  or  Serial  Peripheral  Interface.  It  supports  256-step  contrast  and  65K  color  control.  
SSD1357  is  suitable  for  portable  applications  such  as  wearable  electronics  with  vivid  color  OLED 
display. 
 
  Resolution: 128RGB x 128 dot matrix panel 
o  VDD  = 1.65V – 3.5V    
o  VCC = 8.0V – 18.0V               (Panel driving power supply) 
(MCU interface logic level & low voltage power supply) 
  Segment maximum source current: 320uA 
  Common maximum sink current: 80mA 
  Pin selectable MCU Interfaces: 
o  8/16 bits 6800/8080-series parallel Interface 
o  3/4 wire Serial Peripheral Interface 
o 
I2C Interface 
  256 step brightness current control for the each color component plus 16 step master current 
  Support color depth of 256 and 65k  
  Support 3 individual Gamma Look Up Tables (GLUT) for R, G, B  
  Color Swapping Function (RGB – BGR) 
  Row re-mapping and Column re-mapping 
  Screen saving continuous scrolling function in both horizontal and vertical direction 
  Screen saving infinite content scrolling function 
  Programmable Frame Rate 
  Power On Reset (POR) 
  On-Chip Oscillator  
  Chip layout for COG, COF 
  Operating temperature range -40C to 85C 
 
3  ORDERING INFORMATION 
Table 3-1: Ordering Information 
Ordering Part Number 
SEG 
COM 
Package Form  Remark 
SSD1357Z 
128RGB 
128 
COG 
o  Min SEG pad pitch : 27um 
o  Min COM pad pitch : 33.4um 
o  Min I/O pad pitch : 55um 
o  Die thickness: 250um 
o  Bump height: nominal 12um 
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4  BLOCK DIAGRAM 
Figure 4-1: SSD1357 Block Diagram  
 
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SSD1357 
Rev 1.1 
P 7/36 
Apr 2019 
 
Solomon Systech 
 
 
5  PIN DESCRIPTION 
 
Key: 
Pin Name 
VDD 
VCC 
Vp 
T0 
T1 
Vpp 
BGGND 
VSS 
VLSS 
VSL 
VLH 
VLL 
VCOMH 
VBREF 
O 
I = Input 
O =Output 
I/O = Bi-directional (input/output)  Pull HIGH= connect to VDD  
P = Power pin 
NC = Not Connected 
Pull LOW= connect to Ground 
 
Table 5-1: Pin description 
Pin Type  Description 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
P 
Power supply pin for core logic operation. A capacitor should be connected between 
this pin and VSS. 
 
Power supply for panel driving voltage. This is also the most positive power voltage 
supply pin. 
A capacitor should be connected between this pin and VSS. 
 
This pin is the segment pre-charge voltage reference pin. 
A  capacitor  can  be  connected  between  this  pin  and  VSS  to  improve  vision 
performance. 
No external power supply is allowed to connect to this pin.  
 
Reserved pin. This pin should be kept NC
 
Reserved pin. This pin should be kept NC
 
Reserved pin. It must be connected to VDD. 
 
Reserved pin.  It must be connected to VSS. 
 
Ground pin.  It must be connected to external ground.   
 
Analog system ground pin.  It must be connected to external ground.   
 
This is segment voltage (output low level) reference pin.  
This pin has to connect with resistor and diode to ground (details depends on 
application). 
 
Logic high (same voltage level as VDD) for internal connection of input and I/O pins. 
No need to connect to external power source. 
 
Logic low (same voltage level as VSS) for internal connection of input and I/O pins. 
No need to connect to external ground. 
 
COM signal deselected voltage level.   
A capacitor should be connected between this pin and VSS.   
 
This is a reserved pin. It should be kept NC. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Rev 1.1  SSD1357