Genesis Microchip Announces Industry’s First End-to-End DisplayPort Transmitter-Receiver Solution

Genesis Microchip Announces Industry's First End-to-End DisplayPort Transmitter-Receiver Solution

Genesis Microchip announced that it has developed a transmitter-receiver pair based on the DisplayPort 1.0 standard proposed by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA).

New Solution Based on DisplayPort 1.0 Specification to be Publicly Demonstrated at SIGGRAPH 2006

ATI Technologies, another member of VESA and, like Genesis, part of the original promoters' group, will also be showcasing Genesis's DisplayPort transmitter/receiver demonstration in their booth (No. 1513) at SIGGRAPH. “As an open industry standard, we believe DisplayPort will enable unparalleled performance in displays for higher resolution, refresh rates and greater color depth,” said Bob Drebin, CTO of ATI Technologies' PC Business Unit. “DisplayPort is a critical initiative for ATI, due to the increasing demands on interface bandwidth as higher performance display and source technologies like Avivo are introduced.”

Genesis Microchip's first DisplayPort-based solution includes a discrete transmitter (gm60028) and a discrete receiver (gm68020), which together form a complete interface translator for high-bandwidth display applications such as HDTVs, projectors and high resolution monitors. This solution comprises a single link DisplayPort interface capable of transporting uncompressed video and digital audio signals up to 10.8Gbps bandwidth over a 50 foot cable.

The DisplayPort link bandwidth is freely traded between display resolutions, refresh rate and pixel color depth. The Genesis solution can transmit and receive full HD video (1080p 30-bits-per-pixel) at 120Hz or QSXGA (2560×2048) graphics at 60Hz, suitable for meeting the growing requirement of high refresh rate and high-resolution displays. Both the transmitter and receiver devices contain LVTTL video ports (60-bit wide) and digital audio ports (SPDIF and I²S) for direct interface with commercially available audio-video processors.