LONDON — MIPS Technologies Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) a licensor of processors and analog IP, has announced that its cooperation with NXP BV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) has resulted in an HDMI 1.3 receiver core implemented in 45-nm silicon.
The companies announced one year ago that they were extending their strategic relationship to offer HDMI-based IP solutions for digital home applications, including high-definition digital TVs and display units, audiovisual receivers and set-top boxes.
HDMI stands for High-Definition Multimedia Interface and is an interface for transmitting uncompressed digital audio and video data.
Created through a combination of co-development and co-licensing, the HDMI receiver IP is integrated in NXP's TV550 digital television platform, and is available for license as IP from MIPS.
"NXP's leading position in the consumer IC market made it a natural partner in developing a compelling HDMI receiver IP solution for the digital home — a market where NXP and MIPS both experience great success," said Cesar Martin-Perez, vice president and general manager of the analog business group at MIPS, in a statement.
The new HDMI 1.3 Receiver Interface is comprised of an HDMI RX controller and an HDMI RX PHY, and is based on production-proven 90nm technology. The controller features video interface flexibility supporting all CEA-861D video formats. It also supports True Color and Deep Color modes and several video pixel encodings, as well as Gamut Metadata. The controller also features audio interface flexibility, and has an integrated HDCP decryption engine and I2C slave interface for HDCP authentication. The HDMI 1.3 RX PHY features an automatic adaptive equalizer function and a variable number of input channels, and is capable of supporting cables up to 20 meters in length.
MIPS Technologies' HDMI IP cores are uniquely optimized for HDMI connectivity in low power, portable transmit applications — including digital still cameras, camcorders, portable media players, game consoles and cell phones, as well as digital home receive applications.
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