Small form factor pluggable unit with signal conversion capabilities
AssigneeEmbryonix Design Inc.
InventorsRenaud LAVOIE, Éric DUDEMAINE
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to devices comprising small form factor pluggable units (SFP) having connectors for receiving and sending signals and a processor for converting the received signals prior to sending the converted signals. Received or sent signals may comprise video signals in various analog or digital formats. Conversion of the received signals may comprise analog to digital or digital to analog conversion, serializing or deserializing a digital signal, frame synchronization of a video signal, and/or cross conversion of a video signal from a first format to a second format.
Claims21
A small form-factor pluggable (SFP) unit comprising:
- a first connector for receiving a video signal;
- an analog to digital convertor (ADC) for converting the video signal into a digital signal;
- a serializer module for transforming the digital signal into a serial data signal;
- and
- a second connector for outputting the serial data signal.
A small form-factor pluggable (SFP) unit comprising:
- a first connector for receiving a serial data signal;
- a deserializer module for transforming the serial data signal into a digital signal;
- a digital to analog convertor (DAC) for converting the digital signal into a video signal;
- and
- a second connector for outputting the video signal.
A conversion device comprising:
- a small form-factor pluggable (SFP) unit comprising:
- an analog to digital convertor/digital to analog convertor (ADC/DAC) for converting a signal between an analog format and a digital parallel format,
- a serializer/deserializer module for transforming a digital signal between the digital parallel format and a serial format,
- a first connector for receiving and/or sending a video signal according to the analog format, and
- a second connector for receiving and/or sending a data signal according to the serial format.
A small form-factor pluggable (SFP) unit comprising:
- a first connector for receiving a first video signal according to a first format;
- a processor for converting the first video signal from the first format to a second format;
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- a second connector for outputting a second video signal according to the second format.
A small form-factor pluggable (SFP) unit comprising:
- a first connector for receiving an analog or digital video signal;
- a timing source;
- a processor for applying frame synchronization to frames of the video signal based on the timing source;
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- a second connector for outputting the video signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.