Source Drive Integrated Circuit And Display Apparatus Including The Same

A display apparatus comprising:

• a display panel including a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines, which are arranged to intersect one another and thereby define a plurality of pixel areas, and a pixel provided in each of the plurality of pixel areas;
• a gate driver supplying a gate signal to the plurality of gate lines;
• and
• a data driver supplying data voltages to the plurality of data lines,
• wherein the data driver comprises the source drive IC comprising:
• a core unit provided in a control area;
• a channel processing unit provided in each of a first channel area disposed in a first side of the control area and a second channel area disposed in a second side of the control area facing the first side to convert digital data, corresponding to a digital image signal transferred from the core unit, into a data voltage corresponding to an analog image signal and to output the data voltage;
• a resistor string provided in at least one of a first pad area disposed in a third side of the control area and a second pad area disposed in a fourth side of the control area facing the third side to generate a gamma voltage for converting the digital data into the data voltage and to supply the gamma voltage to the channel processing unit;
• and
• N (where N is a natural number more than one) number of gamma pads provided in the at least one of the first and second pad areas to supply the resistor string with a gamma reference voltage for generating the gamma voltage.