Silicon Image introduces PanelLink®, its new flagship consumer electronics product family featuring the first silicon fully compliant with the industry's broadly supported HDMI 1.0 specification. PanelLink products offer a simple, low-cost method of providing consumers with the highest-quality, all-digital home theater experience. Consumer electronics devices incorporating PanelLink technology are able to transmit and/or receive uncompressed, premium-quality, digital HD content over a single, low-cost HDMI cable. Built-in backward compatibility with the DVI 1.0 specification allows HDMI devices to connect to any DVI device, protecting consumer's home theater investments.

SiI 9190 Features
PanelLinkTransmitter
Industry-Standard Compliance
• HDMI 1.0
• DVI 1.0
• EIA/CEA-861B
• HDCP 1.1

Digital Video Input
• Integrated PanelLink® core supports all DTV resolutions (480i/576i/480p/576p/720p/1080i)
• Flexible video interface supports DVD and HD MPEG decoders
   - 12/24-bit RGB 4:4:4
   - 12/24-bit YCbCr 4:4:4
   - 16/20/24-bit YCbCr 4:2:2
   - 8/10/12-bit YCbCr 4:2:2 (ITU.601 and 656)
• Integrated YCbCr-to-RGB color space conversion
• 4:2:2<— > 4:4:4 up-converter
• Programmable Data Enable (DE) generator

Digital Audio Input
• Industry-standard S/PDIF input
• Supports IEC60958 2-channel PCM (48kHz)
• Capable of carrying IEC61937 compressed audio (Dolby Digital, DTS, etc.)

Power Management
• 3.3V core provides low-power operation
• Flexible power-down modes
• Standby mode consumes less than 10mW

Content Protection
• Integrated High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) cipher engine
• Pre-programmed HDCP keys
   - Simplify manufacturing process
   - Most secure solution available
   - Lower system, manufacturing costs
• Encrypts both video and audio

System Operation
• Register-programmable via slave I2C interface
• Flexible interrupt registers with interrupt pin
• Monitor detection supported through hot plug and receiver detection

APPLICATIONs
• Digital Set-top Boxes
• DVD Players
• DVD Recorders
• A/V Receivers
• D-VHS Players
• PVRs