VESA’s DisplayPort Automotive Extensions (DP AE) is about treating the in-car display path like a safety-critical data link, not “just pixels.” The idea is to detect corruption, dropped or repeated frames, and even intentional tampering so a rear-view camera, speedometer, or driver instrument cluster can be flagged as invalid instead of silently showing the wrong thing. https://vesa.org/
A key mechanism is functional-safety metadata riding on top of standard DisplayPort: CRC (cyclic redundancy check) signatures plus frame counters and timing checks, computed per region of interest (ROI) so the most critical parts of a screen get the tightest scrutiny. If a CRC mismatch appears, or if a frame freezes or skips, the system can raise a warning immediately rather than leaving the driver to guess what happened here.
DP AE also adds security concepts aimed at image integrity and authentication, so attempts to modify rendered content in transit can be detected at the display level. This matters as vehicles add more high-resolution interior panels and camera feeds, while the attack surface grows across GPUs, head units, and external links in a modern car.
The demo is filmed at CES Las Vegas 2026 and ties DP AE to real automotive wiring reality: long cable runs and SerDes links. VESA highlights collaboration with the OpenGMSL ecosystem to carry DisplayPort over longer distances (the video mentions up to 15 m), while keeping end-to-end checks consistent across silicon vendors, Tier-1s, and test tool chains today.
On the validation side, Teledyne LeCroy’s quantumdata platform is shown as a practical way to emulate DP AE sources and sinks, inspect the new secondary data packets, and inject faults to prove detection works. Between FPGA setups, software models, and compliance workflows, the takeaway is an ecosystem push: interoperable safety/security profiles that different suppliers can test the same way and ship with fewer integration surprises too.
I’m publishing about 100+ videos from CES 2026, I upload about 4 videos per day at 5AM/11AM/5PM/11PM CET/EST. Check out all my CES 2026 videos in my playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7xXqJFxvYvjaMwKMgLb6ja_yZuano19e
This video was filmed using the DJI Pocket 3 ($669 at https://amzn.to/4aMpKIC using the dual wireless DJI Mic 2 microphones with the DJI lapel microphone https://amzn.to/3XIj3l8 ), watch all my DJI Pocket 3 videos here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7xXqJFxvYvhDlWIAxm_pR9dp7ArSkhKK
Click the “Super Thanks” button below the video to send a highlighted comment under the video! Brands I film are welcome to support my work in this way 😁
Check out my video with Daylight Computer about their revolutionary Sunlight Readable Transflective LCD Display for Healthy Learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U98RuxkFDYY
