
CHRONTEL CH7317A
8 201-0000-087 Rev. 1.2, 12/2/200 8
2.0 Functional Description
2.1 Input Interface
2.1.1 Overview
One pair of differential clock signal and three differential pairs of data signals (R/G/B) form one channel data. The
input data are 10-bit serialized data. Input data run at 1Gbits/s~2Gbits/s, being a 10x multiple of the clock rate
(SDVO_CLK+/-). The CH7317A de-serializes the input into 10-bit parallel data with synchronization and
alignment. Then the 10-bit characters are mapped into 8-bit color data or control data (Hsync, Vsync, DE).
2.1.2 Interface Voltage Levels
All differential SDVO pairs are AC coupled differential signals. Therefore, there is not a specified DC signal level
for the signals to operate at. The differential p-p input voltage has a min of 175mV, and a max of 1.2V. The
differential p-p output voltage has a min of 0.8V, with a max of 1.2V.
2.1.3 Inpu t Clock and Data Timing
A data character is transmitted least significant bit first. The beginning of a character is noted by the falling edge of
the SDVO_CLK+ edge. The skew among input lanes is required to be no larger than 2ns.
The clock rate runs at 100MHz~200MHz. The pixel rate can be 25MP/s~165MP/s. The pixel rate and the clock rate
do not always equal. The clock rate can be a multiple of the pixel rate (1x, 2x or 4x depending on the pixel rate) so
that the clock rate will be stay in the 100MHz~200MHz range. In the condition that the clock rate is running at a
multiple of the pixel rate, there isn’t enough pixel data to fill the data channels. Dummy fill characters
(‘0001111010’) are used to stuff the data stream. The CH7317A supports the following clock rate multipliers and
fill patterns shown in 3Table 2.
Table 2: CH7317A supported Pixel Rates, Clock Rates, Data Transfer Rates and Fill Patterns
Pixel Rate Clock Rate – Multiplier Stuffing Format Data Transfer Rate - Multiplier
25~50 MP/s 100~200 MHz – 4xPixel Rate Data, Fill, Fill, Fill 1.00~2.00 Gbits/s – 10xClock Rate
50~100 MP/s 100~200 MHz – 2xPixel Rate Data, Fill 1.00~2.00 Gbits/s – 10xClock Rate
100~200 MP/s 100~200 MHz – 1xPixel Rate Data 1.00~2.00 Gbits/s – 10xClock Rate
2.1.4 Synchronization
Synchronization and channel-to-channel de-skewing is facilitated by the transmission of special characters during
the blank period. The CH7317A synchronizes during the initialization period and subsequently uses the blank
periods to re-synch to the data stream.
2.2 CRT Bypass Operation
The CH7317A operates in CRT RGB Bypass mode. In CRT Bypass mode, data from the graphics device, after
proper decoding, are bypassed directly to the video DACs to implement a second CRT DAC function. Sync signals,
after proper decoding, are buffered internally, and can be output to drive the CRT. The CH7317A can support a
pixel rate of 200MHz. This operating mode uses 8-bits of the DAC’s 10-bit range, and provides a nominal signal
swing of 0.661V (or 0.7V depending on DAC Gain setting in control registers) when driving a 75Ω doubly
terminated load. No scaling, scan conversion or flicker filtering is applied in CRT Bypass modes.