IP And PHY Chip Team Up For HDMI Solutions

March 16, 2006

Designers can use Silicon Image's latest intellectual property (IP) and a companion physical-layer (PHY) interface chip to implement high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) receiver and transmitter solutions. Fully compliant with the HDMI 1.1 specification, the transmit and receive blocks are available as soft register transfer level (RTL) cores that are foundry and process independent.

The companion Sil 9002 transmit PHY chip fully complies with HDMI 1.1 and 1.2 standards (see the figure). It can be added to system-on-a-chip designs that incorporate the HDMI transmit core. The Sil 9003 PHY receiver chip will be available next quarter.

Housed in a 48-lead thin-shrink small-outline package, the Sil 9002 costs $1.50 each in lots of 10,000. Contact the company for core licensing terms.

Silicon Image Inc.
www.siliconimage.com

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Dave Bursky

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Dave Bursky, the founder of New Ideas in Communications, a publication website featuring the blog column Chipnastics – the Art and Science of Chip Design. He is also president of PRN Engineering, a technical writing and market consulting company. Prior to these organizations, he spent about a dozen years as a contributing editor to Chip Design magazine. Concurrent with Chip Design, he was also the technical editorial manager at Maxim Integrated Products, and prior to Maxim, Dave spent over 35 years working as an engineer for the U.S. Army Electronics Command and an editor with Electronic Design Magazine.