Systems and methods for display board control

A non-transitory computer-readable medium for providing instructions to a plurality of light-emitting diode (LED) blocks arranged according to an order, each LED block from among the plurality of LED blocks having a corresponding input/output (I/O) pin, the computer-readable medium comprising code for:

• providing, via a multicast connection, instructions to the plurality of LED blocks to set the corresponding I/O pins to a first value;
• setting a corresponding I/O pin of the controller to a second value;
• providing, via the multicast connection, output settings to the plurality of LED blocks, wherein the output settings are provided for processing at one or more LED blocks having the corresponding I/O pin set to the first value and having a corresponding I/O pin of an immediately previous LED block according to the order set to the second value, and wherein the output settings are not provided for processing at one or more LED blocks having the corresponding I/O pin set to the second value or having the corresponding I/O pin of the immediately previous LED block set to the first value;
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• providing, via the multicast connection, instructions for each LED block to set the corresponding I/O pin to the second value if the corresponding I/O pin of the immediately previous LED block was previously set to the second value.

A light-emitting diode (LED) block comprising:

• exactly six pins, the exactly six pins comprising:
• a ground pin,
• an input/output (I/O) pin operative to be set to a first value or a second value,
• two communication link pins operative to receive communication settings, and
• two video link pins operative to receive video settings;
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• processing hardware operative to implement instructions stored in a computer-readable medium;
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• the computer-readable medium comprising the instructions for:
• providing for processing of the communication settings or video settings received via the two communication link pins or the two video link pins if the I/O pin is set to the first value and an I/O pin of an immediately previous LED block in an order is set to the second value;
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• foregoing providing for processing of the communication settings or video settings received via the two communication link pins or the two video link pins if the I/O pin is set to the second value or an I/O pin of the immediately previous LED block in the order is set to the first value.

A system for providing data to LED blocks, the system comprising:

• a plurality of LED blocks arranged according to an order, each LED block from among the plurality of LED blocks comprising:
• a ground pin,
• a corresponding input/output (I/O) pin operative to be set to a first value or a second value, the corresponding I/O pin serving as an input pin for an immediately next LED block according to the order, and
• at least one and at most four data pins operative to receive output settings, the at least one and at most four data pins being coupled to a controller via a multicast connection;
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• the controller comprising:
• processing hardware operative to implement instructions stored in a computer-readable medium, and
• the computer-readable medium comprising the instructions for:
• providing, via the multicast connection, instructions to the plurality of LED blocks to set the corresponding I/O pins to the first value;
• setting a corresponding I/O pin of the controller to the second value, the corresponding I/O pin of the controller functioning as the corresponding input pin of a first LED block according to the order;
• providing, via the multicast connection, the output settings to the plurality of LED blocks, wherein the output settings are provided for processing at one or more LED blocks having the corresponding I/O pin set to the first value and having a corresponding input pin set to the second value, and wherein the output settings are not provided for processing at one or more LED blocks having the corresponding I/O pin set to the second value or having the corresponding input pin set to the first value;
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• providing, via the multicast connection, instructions for each LED block having the corresponding input pin previously set to the second value to set the corresponding I/O pin to the second value.