It's funny to hear LVDS be described as an "automotive" cable when all of my run-ins with it are for connecting laptop displays to their main-boards! (though that has a very different connector on it, and its a very general term for the signalling protocol from what I remember)

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slfnflctd 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not saying there's anything wrong with your perspective (lots of terms get in muddied waters, it's common and not a problem if everyone is on the same page), but this is what I just found on Wikipedia:

"Early on, the notebook computer and LCD vendors commonly used the term LVDS instead of FPD-Link when referring to their protocol, and the term LVDS has mistakenly become synonymous with Flat Panel Display Link in the video-display engineering vocabulary."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-voltage_differential_signa...

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stephen_g 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The cable in the article is pretty much doing the same conflation of terms that Wiki is talking about - the automotive one is a proprietary cable that carries some protocol that uses LVDS as its signalling, so at the most basic level both it and the display cable in the laptop are 'LVDS cables' but that's also the most generic term that gives you no information about the protocol actually being carried by the cables.

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girvo 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah I saw that too which is why I posted my comment, it's surprising to me :) LVDS for display cables was an incredibly term in that context. Even still is sometimes despite them mostly being eDP (embedded-DisplayPort) now, which is quite incorrect hah

	▲	Dylan16807 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Incredibly what? And eDP is a differential signal at 200 or 400 millivolts so I don't see how that's "quite incorrect". It's not "the" LVDS but it's still in the category.

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jeffreygoesto 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

LVDS with Fakra connectors is pretty standard in automotive for cameras and displays. The protocols used over it are often proprietary though.

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adrian_b 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Most modern laptops no longer use LVDS for connecting the screen, but they use eDP (embedded DisplayPort).

So LVDS is more likely to linger in automotive displays, while in less obsolete devices it has been replaced by either eDP or by MIPI DSI (used e.g. in smartphones).

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inamberclad 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

SpaceWire is also just LVDS with an uber-minimal routing protocol. It runs on a lot of satellites.