Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Cypress Semiconductor | Subject: Hotlink-On-Demand PHYs
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 10 September 2004
Physical layer devices meet SMPTE specs
Cypress Semiconductor reckons its Hotlink-On-Demand family of PHYs is the largest and most flexible portfolio of SMPTE standards-compliant PHYs on the market
Cypress Semiconductor reckons its Hotlink-On-Demand family of PHYs is the largest and most flexible portfolio of Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers (SMPTE) standards-compliant PHYs on the market. Building on the success of the Hotlink II, the world's first quad independent channel video serdes, the Hotlink-On-Demand portfolio of 12 devices provides designers with scalability and flexibility in their professional video equipment designs, including production switchers, distribution amplifiers, D/A and A/D convertors, and camera control units.
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"By offering a combination of serialisers, deserialisers, reclockers and transceivers, the Hotlink-On-Demand family provides designers with the ability to mix and match serial digital video PHYs, to exactly match their design requirements", said Erin Kettwig, Product Manager for Cypress physical layer devices.
All of the devices are designed so that each channel can run at either SMPTE 259M or SMPTE 292M speeds.
In addition, all devices feature an integrated voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) and phase-lock loop (PLL), as well as an innovative chip design that eliminates channel crosstalk and performs significantly better than the SMPTE jitter specification.
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The portfolio also includes devices that allow one channel be a transmitter and another, an independent reclocking deserialiser, which proves particularly useful in up/down convertor applications.
"The Hotlink-On-Demand portfolio enables designers to build exactly what they need with the confidence that it will meet all SMPTE specifications, including jitter or pathological requirements, for all video applications", said Geoff Charubin, Managing Director for Cypress Data Communications Division.
"The fact that we integrated a failsafe recovery clock and a voltage-controlled oscillator saves our customers the cost and design time associated with external crystal oscillators and simplifies their board layout".
"These devices truly provide the ease of use factor and prevent the headaches and challenges typically presented by SMPTE board design".
Cypress will demonstrate its full-featured SMPTE-compliant compliant Hotlink II quad independent channel serdes video platform at IBC in Amsterdam until 14th September.
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