Part#: CH7517A-BFI
Part Category: Consumer ICs

Manufacturer: Chrontel, Inc.

Description: Consumer Circuit

Chrontel’s CH7517 is a low-cost, low-power
semiconductor device that translates the DisplayPort
signal to the VGA. This innovative DisplayPort receiver
with an integrated VGA encoder is specially designed to
target the notebook/ultrabook, tablet device and PC
market segments. Through the CH7517’s advanced
decoding / encoding algorithm, the input DisplayPort
high-speed serialized multimedia data can be seamlessly
converted to analog RGB video output.
The CH7517 is compliant with the DisplayPort
specification version 1.2 and the Embedded DisplayPort
Specification version 1.3. In the device’s receiver block,
which supports two DisplayPort Main Link Lanes input
with data rate running at either 1.62Gb/s or 2.7Gb/s, can
accept RGB digital formats in either 18-bit 6:6:6 or 24-bit
8:8:8, and converted the input signal to VGA output up to
1920×1200@ 60Hz or 2048×1152@60Hz with reduced
blanking. Leveraging the DisplayPort’s unique
source/sink “Link Training” routine, the CH7517 is
capable of instantly bring up the video display to the
VGA monitor when the initialization process is
completed between CH7517 and the graphic chip.
The DACs are based on current source architecture. And
the VGA output meet VESA VSIS v1r2 clock jitter target.
With sophisticated MCU and the on-chip Flash, CH7517
support auto-boot and EDID buffer. After the
configuration by firmware, which is auto loaded from the
Flash embedded, CH7517 supports DisplayPort input
detection, DAC connection detection and determine to
enter into power saving mode automatically.