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Designing for DVI

Designing for DVI. General Applications Considerations. Design Issues to Consider. Layout Recommendations Power supply considerations EMC considerations. Layout Recommendations. Route differential pairs together. Avoid excessive or asymmetric vias. Layout Recommendations (cont’d).

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Designing for DVI

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  1. Designing for DVI General Applications Considerations

  2. Design Issues to Consider • Layout Recommendations • Power supply considerations • EMC considerations

  3. Layout Recommendations • Route differential pairs together • Avoid excessive or asymmetric vias

  4. Layout Recommendations (cont’d) • Series damping resistors on data, clock, control signal inputs to TX GPU • Reduces signal ringing, noise

  5. Signal Lines IC Cut in GND or poor HF contact IC Common-Mode Current Layout Recommendations (cont’d) • Four layer PCB • Solid ground plane Signal GND

  6. Low Emissions Signal Signal Return Current Trace Return Current GND Plane Layout Considerations (cont’d) High Emissions GND Plane

  7. Power Supply Considerations • Voltage regulator on TX PVCC supply Switch-mode Power Supply PVCC, PVCC2 +5V +3.3V Switching Noise ~45-60KHz • Switching noise can cause PLL jitter • VREG greatly reduces supply noise

  8. EMC Considerations • Even though PanelLink operates at over 1GHz, most emissions are still caused by parallel data • Some high frequency emissions near 1GHz are possible, but are related to mechanical contact

  9. EMC Considerations: Data Lines • Damping resistors, short data path Minimize Length

  10. Good contact between Shield and connector Shell Broad contact Between connector And Bracket Solid contact between Bracket and chassis EMC Considerations: Ground Contact • Good, broad contact between connector shells and the I/O bracket • Broad contact between the I/O bracket and the system chassis • Good 360o contact between connector shell and cable shield • Good contact between motherboard GND and chassis • Helps with high frequency emissions

  11. Signal GND/RTN Cable Shield Display Chassis EMC Considerations: Ground Contact • The chassis is the common GND reference • Do not have floating grounds PCB GND 2 PCB GND 2 Monitor PCB GND PCB GND 1 Shielding Host Chassis Shielding

  12. Ground Contact: Example PCB 2 Signal & GND (Return) Cable Shield PCB 1 PCB 3 Main Chassis Remote Chassis ° 360 Clamps or Connector Shells Shielding Shielding

  13. Summary • Voltage regulator strongly recommended on TX PVCC • Damping resistors on all parallel data lines • Improves signal integrity and EMI • Solid ground plane • Use chassis as common GND reference

  14. Conclusion • PanelLink is very robust, but is still a high-speed gigabit serial link • Higher data rate than gigabit ethernet • Reference schematics provided • Silicon Image is the leader in experience and knowledge of this technology • Applications knowledge • Local and factory support • Production and testing

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