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management products,” said Andrea
Onetti, Group Vice President and
General Manager Volume MEMS
Division, STMicroelectronics. “The new
STUSB16 family embeds higher levels
of circuit protection and a customer-
configurable non-volatile memory,
which enables IC configuration at
power-up without software support.
Overall, the ST portfolio delivers a
low BOM cost and flexible hardware/
software solution capable of meeting
every power-profile requirement and
customization need.”
ST has enabled the migration to the
USB Type-C port through the simple
addition of an STUSB16 companion
chip to existing MCU-based designs,
while
minimizing
MCU-resource
requirements compared to alternate
solutions. Together these features
simplify software development and
reduce time-to-market while allowing
customers to focus on their own added-
value differentiators.
The first member of the STUSB16
family, the STUSB1600QTR, is
sampling to lead customers now at
$0.95 in 1ku.
Panasonic Develops
Single Cable and Connector
Solution for Transmission of
Full-spec 8K Video Signals*1
Panasonic
Corporation
today
announced that it has developed
single cable and connector solution
that enable the transmission of
uncompressed full-spec 8K video
signals*1.
Currently, to transmit video signal via
connector-equipped cables from an
8K signal source or other devices to
an 8K display, 4K-equivalent images
are transmitted using four HDMI
cables, and then they are combined
to show in 8K resolution by using
image
processing.
Panasonic’s
newly-developed connector-equipped
cable, which uses plastic optical
fiber technology, can achieve the
transmission of full-spec 8K video
via a single cable, with improved
bandwidth and length.
High-speed transmission over optical
fiber connector can be achieved when
theoptical axes are completely aligned.
However, when the equipment and
the cable’s connection portions are
detachable, it is difficult to precisely
align optical axes at the connection,
leading to poor connectivity and
other defects. That has hampered
the deployment of optical fiber cables
in video transmission cables with
detachable connectors.
Working with KAI Photonics Co.,
Ltd., a venture from Japan’s Keio
University, Panasonic developed
connector-equipped cables that adopt
“plastic optical fiber and its connection
technology using ballpoint-pen type
interconnect*2.” Further, by applying
Panasonic’s technology for the multi-
level modulation of broadband signals,
a transmission bandwidth exceeding
100 Gbps was achieved with a single
cable.
Professor Yasuhiro Koike of the
Faculty of Science and Technology,
Keio University, commented: “I am
delighted that Panasonic successfully
developed a prototype cable for
transmitting 8K images based on
‘plastic optical fiber and its connection
technology using ballpoint-pen type
interconnect,’ which was developed
by Keio University. We would like to
further cooperate with Panasonic to
respond to the variety of needs for
audiovisual transmission.”
Anticipating the spread of the
corporate use of 8K devices in the
B2B market, Panasonic aims to
make this innovative connector cable
technology an international standard.
Technologies related to this proto
model will be exhibited at the
Panasonic booth at CES 2016 to be
held in January in Las Vegas, U.S.A.
Notes:
*1 The term denotes an image of
approx. 33 million pixels (7,680 ×
4,320) and 120 frames/sec. A full
HD image is composed of approx. 2
million pixels (1,920 × 1,080) and 60
frames/sec. and a 4K image approx.
8 million pixels (3,840 × 2,160) and 60
frames/sec.
*2 The ballpoint-pen type interconnect
technology for plastic optical fiber
connection has been developed jointly
by Mitsubishi Pencil Co, Ltd. and Keio
University’s Professor Yasuhiro Koike.
New FCI USB 3.1 Type C
connectors are reversible for
quick and easy USB, power,
audio and video connection:
now available through TTI
Small form factor; supports
SuperSpeed 10Gb/s for emerging
designs
Now available in Europe through
TTI, Inc., a world leading specialist
distributor of electronic components,