4K UHD video and camera interface support
High-performance product that resolves MIPI signal integrity issues

TI (CEO Kent Tran) announced the release of three high-performance retimer products that enable signal range extension without compromising signal integrity over long-distance traces, connectors, and cables.

These are new products in TI's high-performance retimer portfolio that enable flexible and cost-optimized system designs, allowing developers to reduce product development time while maintaining optimized performance.

In addition, these three retimer products consume up to 60% less power than competing products and operate over the industry's widest temperature range of -40C to 85C, enabling robust video and camera signal quality in equipment such as desktop and laptop PCs, mobile devices, HDTVs, and automotive infotainment systems.


These new retimer products improve signal quality by eliminating jitter and compensating for losses on signals transmitted over long distances through traces and cables.

The DP159 and TMDS181 retimers support up to 15dB of adaptive equalization, allowing for fine-tuning of system performance and excellent jitter correction by dynamically adjusting EQ levels. In addition, these device products support multi-gigabit signals of up to 6Gbps, such as DisplayPort or HDMI, and operate over an extended temperature range, allowing developers to optimize the performance of various types of consumer electronics, automobiles, and industrial equipment.

In addition, it offers various speed and protocol options, allows for reprogramming channel configurations, is pin-to-pin compatible with HDMI 1.4b and HDMI 2.0, and supports the lowest power consumption currently available, enabling the design of cost-optimized solutions up to 60% lower than competing products.

The DPHY440 device is the industry's first MIPI Camera Serial Interface (CSI) and Display Serial Interface (DSI) retimer to provide 4 lanes x 1Gbps, offering more than 10 times higher bandwidth than existing solutions, enabling the transmission of higher resolution camera images over long traces and cables.

DP159 and TMDS181 include robust features such as a Pseudorandom Binary Sequence (PRBS) generator that enables efficient system implementation and verification, and EyeScan, a real-time signal monitoring tool, allowing developers to quickly optimize system designs.