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News Release from: Gennum Corp | Subject: IBC 2001
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 27 July 2001
New broadcast chipsets feature at IBC
2001
Gennum goes to the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC 2001) with a complete multirate serial routing chipset including equalisation and reclocking.
Gennum goes to the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC 2001) with a complete multirate serial routing chipset including equalisation and reclocking as well as a complete broadcast quality (HD/SD) format conversion chipset These new products will support the design and implementation of broadcast studio systems and other professional applications such as projection displays, plasma/LCD displays and video walls
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The first two members of the HD-LINX II family of devices for HDTV/SDTV multirate SDI systems from Gennum are the GS1524 multirate adaptive equaliser and the GS1528 dual slew-rate cable driver.
IBC 2001, will be the first showing of a complete IC solution aimed at multistandard broadcast distribution amplifiers and routers for SMPTE 292M and 259M compliant digital video signals.
This new HD-LINXII family includes a GS1535 multirate SDI automatic reclocker offering automatic operation from 143Mbit/s to 1.485Gbit/s.
The reclocker, supported by the GS1524 multirate SDI adaptive cable equaliser is able to recover an embedded clock signal and retime data from a SMPTE 292M and 259M compliant video signal.
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Affordable broadcast format conversion chipset
Gennum Corporation's newest three-chip solution for the professional video market provides broadcast format conversion quality at an affordable price to global customers.
Equalisers aid high-bandwidth transmission
Gennum has announced its first products for the datacomms market: backplane and copper-cable receive-end equaliser ICs capable of operating at serial datarates up to 10.7Gbit/s.
The GS1528 multirate SDI dual-slew-rate cable driver offering two selectable slew rates to achieve compliance with both of these SMPTE standards rounds out the new Gennum multirate serial chipset.
In an effort to assist manufacturers who face the growing requirement to support both HD (including 1080P60) and SD video formats, along with computer graphics in tomorrow's broadcast environment, Gennum is featuring its new format conversion chipset.
The three-chip solution (GF9331, GF9330 and GF9320) is designed for the high quality requirements of the broadcast environment.
The GF9331 motion coprocessor is a high-performance chip that can be used in conjunction with the GF9330 high-performance deinterlacer to implement a pixel-based motion adaptive deinterlacer.
In addition, the GF9320 broadcast-quality scaling processor performs high quality 2D scaling of video/graphics and supports postprocessing such as YUV/RGB conversions, gain and hue controls.
The chipset can also be used in projection displays, plasma/LCD displays, video walls, home theatre systems, HD-DVD players and other applications requiring broadcast quality format conversions.
In addition, Gennum will preview a serial digital DC restorer, an embedded HD audio IC and a serial data transport interface IC.
The GS1514 serial digital DC restorer for fibre-optic receivers automatically amplifies input signals in addition to restoring DC content to signals which have been AC coupled.
The GS1503 HD embedded audio codec is a single chip embedded audio solution which multiplexes and de-multiplexes ANC data packets.
The GS1590, part of the HD-LINXII family, enables the transport of packetised data over SDI streams.
Gennum has also recently entered the datacommunications marketplace with the introduction of backplane and copper cable receive end equaliser ICs that are capable of operating at serial data rates up to 10.7Gbit/s.
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