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SDI Product Table:

Serial Digital Interface (SDI) (All products)
- Equalizers
- Reclockers
- Reclockers with 4:1 Mux
- Cable Drivers
- Serializers
- Deserializers
- Switching Conditioning (Crosspoints & Signal Conditioning)
HDMI/DVI Cable Extenders
Video Timing (Sync Separators & Video Clock Generation)
RS-422 Line Drivers and Receivers

Related Featured Sites:

Interface Solutions Home
Video Timing including sync separators, clock generators, video timing reference designs, etc.
Other clock and timing solutions including jitter cleaners, clock distribution, level translators, and PLLs
Products for analog RGB video
Displays Products
Power for FPGAs, processors, ASICs

Broadcast Video Selection Guide (pdf)

New! SDI Eval Board/Reference Designs

SDALTEVK - Triple-rate SDI & video clocking daughter card for Altera Cyclone III FPGAs
SDXILEVK - Triple-rate SDI & video clocking daughter card for Xilinx Spartan-3A/3E FPGAs
ML571-1982CLK - High-Performance Video Clock Module for Xilinx Virtex-5 LXT FPGAs

SDI Design Tools:

SDI/SDV Evaluation/Demo Boards
SDI Reference Design
Download Interface IBIS Models
ORCAD Schematic Library for 3G SDI Family
Files include library symbols for the following SDI devices: LMH0340SQ, LMH0341SQ, LMH0302SQ, LMH0303SQ, LMH0307SQ, LMH0344SQ, LMH0346MH, LMH0356SQ, LMH0384SQ; also included are the LMH0030VS and LMH0031VS devices.

Understanding Serial Digital Video Bit Rates:

AN-1943: Understanding Serial Digital Video Bit Rates
Download the Calculator Spreadsheet (XLS)

SDI Technical Documents:

SDI/SDV FAQs
SDI Application Notes
SDI Technical Library - Lab reports, conference papers, white papers, etc
Broadcast Video Owner's Manual (1st Edition)

Transmission Line RAPIDESIGNER Slide Rule:

Power Management for SDI

SDI Online Seminars:

See all online seminars.

Guest Technical Documents:

Understanding Jitter Measurements for Serial Digital Video Signals - Tektronix
Testing Applications in Uncompressed HDTV Signals from SyntheSys Research Inc (pdf 311KB)

Industry Links:

Standards Organizations
Trade Shows
- National Association of Broadcasters
- International Broadcasting Convention
Useful Links
- Belden Inc

WHAT'S NEW

SDI News

LMH0384 3 Gbps HD/SD SDI Extended Reach and Configurable Adaptive Cable Equalizer

SDI Products

DS34RT5110
DVI, HDMI Retimer with Input Equalization and Output De-Emphasis
DS22EV5110
DVI, HDMI Extended Reach Equalizer with Retimer and Output De-Emphasis
LMH0384
3 Gbps HD/SD SDI Extended Reach and Configurable Adaptive Cable Equalizer
LMH0303

LMH0307
3G/HD/SD SDI cable drivers with cable detect (single/dual output)
LMH0356
3G/HD/SD SDI reclocker with 4:1 input mux and FR4 EQs
LMH0344
3G/HD/SD SDI Adaptive equalizer
LMH0346
3G/HD/SD SDI reclocker
LMH0302
3G/HD/SD SDI cable driver

SDI Evaluation Boards

SDALTEVK - Triple-rate SDI & video clocking daughter card for Altera Cyclone III FPGAs
SDXILEVK - Triple-rate SDI & video clocking daughter card for Xilinx Spartan-3A/3E FPGAs
ML571-1982CLK - High-Performance Video Clock Module for Xilinx Virtex-5 LXT FPGAs
SD303EVK/SD307EVK - LMH0303/LMH0307 triple-rate single/dual SDI cable driver with cable detect

See all SDI evaluation boards.

SDI Articles

Lab Report - Reference Clock Loop Through Application: How to share a clock between multiple reclockers
Lab Report - 3G-SDI: 32 Loop Cascade Analysis: Eye pattern, Jitter tolerance testing and BER testing of the 32 loop cascade application

See all SDI technical documents.

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