n-Dimensional Display Interface - A Replacement For The Venerable Framebuffer

The n-Dimensional Display Interface is the result of an exploration for a new abstraction for display interfaces. Modern and future display use cases are pushing the boundaries of what is possible with even the highest-speed data links connecting computing devices and displays. The n-Dimensional Display Interface was designed to meet a set of guiding principles. The result is an abstraction just above the framebuffer that provides a great deal of backward compatibility and scalability to deliver transmission savings for the most challenging use cases such as 8k displays, display walls, remote connected displays, and low-bandwidth mobile displays. The first two phases of research demonstrated the concept of backward compatibility and then extended the architecture for blending while leveraging video semantics to support full screen video. The third phase finalized the architecture and tackled larger, more complicated use of nDDI: very large display walls.Doctor of Philosoph