Industry's lowest-power, low-jitter retimers for 4K UHD

With up to 60% lower power consumption than competitive devices and the widest temperature range from -40 to +85°C, the retimers enable robust video and camera signal quality in equipment such as desktop and laptop PCs, mobile devices, HDTVs and automotive infotainment systems.

The retimers improve signal quality by removing jitter and compensating loss for signals transmitting over long traces and cables. The DP159 and TMDS181 retimers include adaptive EQ up to 15dB, dynamically adjusting the EQ level to fine tune system performance and enable better jitter compensation. The devices support multi-gigabit signals, such as DisplayPort and HDMI, up to 6Gb/s and operate at an extended temperature range, enabling designers to optimise performance in a wide variety of consumer, automotive and industrial equipment.

Various speed and protocol options, reprogrammable channel configuration and scalable pin-to-pin compatibility for 1.4b and HDMI 2.0 devices enable engineers to design cost-optimised solutions with the lowest power consumption available today, up to 60% lower than competitive devices.

The DPHY440 device is the industry's first 4x1Gb/s MIPI CSI and DSI retimer, providing over 10 times higher bandwidth than existing solutions enabling higher resolution camera images over long traces and cables.

The DP159 and TMDS181 devices include robust features such as a pseudorandom binary sequence generator and real-time diagnostic EyeScan tools for in-system validation, which engineers can configure to quickly optimise their system design.

These new devices in TI's retimer portfolio are available with a variety of features and package types, priced from $1.50 each in 1,000 unit quantities. EVMs are also available to help engineers quickly and easily evaluate performance and speed time-to-market.