Product category: Analogue and Mixed Signal ICs
News Release from: Maxim Integrated Products | Subject: MAX9406
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 03 March 2008
Quad-channel shifter enables DisplayPort
designs
Level shifter enables PCs with a DisplayPort output to directly drive an HDMI/DVI-capable display, such as an LCD screen.
New from Maxim, the MAX9406 is an extremely fast low-skew quad-channel DisplayPort-to-HDMI/DVI level shifter This device enables PCs with a DisplayPort output to directly drive an HDMI/DVI-capable display, such as an LCD screen
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Aug 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The MAX9406 thus provides PC and graphics card manufacturers the flexibility to design for the DisplayPort specification, while supporting legacy HDMI/DVI displays through a low-cost level shifter.
Additionally, it can level shift a differential video data stream driven through a PCI Express card to drive an HDMI/DVI display.
This capability enables alternate PC motherboard configurations, such as an add-on HDMI/DVI PCIe-based solution.
The MAX9406 provides 5 to 3.3V bidirectional level shifting for the I2C-compatible display data channel (DDC) pins and 5 to 3.3V level shifting for the hot-plug detection (HPD) pin.
This high-performance device features low 0.56ps RMS added random jitter, a 2Gbit/s (maximum) datarate, an ultralow 350ps propagation delay and channel-to-channel skew of 20ps.
Additionally, the inputs integrate 50ohm terminations and a self-biased common mode.
The 48-pin version of the MAX9406 is function and pin compatible with the Intel HDMI level-shifter specification.
Available in space-saving 5 x 5mm 32-pin and 7 x 7mm 48-pin TQFN packages, the MAX9406 is fully specified over the -40 to +85 C extended temperature range.
Prices start at US $1.30 (1000-up).
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