Universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter interface for light emitting diode system

A lighting system, comprising:

• a light emitter having a light element configured to emit light;
• and
• control circuitry coupled to the light emitting pixel array, the control circuitry including:
• a universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) interface receive image data, the image data including data defining how to drive the pixels of the light emitter;
• and
• conversion circuitry coupled to the UART interface, wherein the image data to be received by the UART interface has a first bit length, and wherein the conversion circuitry is to translate the image data from the first bit length to a second bit length.

A hardware arrangement for a lighting system, comprising:

• a light emitting diode (LED) die having a light emitting pixel array;
• a board electrically coupling the hardware arrangement to an external system;
• and
• a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) backplane coupled to the LED die and the board, the CMOS backplane provides image data to the LED die, the image data defining how to drive the light emitting pixel array to provide an image, wherein the CMOS backplane includes:
• a universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) interface coupled to the board, the UART to receive the image data from the board;
• and
• conversion circuitry coupled to the UART interface, the conversion circuitry to receive the image data in a first bit length from the UART interface and translate the image data into a second bit length and drive LEDs of the light emitting pixel array using the image data in the second bit length.