Patent ID: 8457153
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: G09G,H04B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface)-SFP+ (Enhanced small form-factor pluggable) converter, comprising: a first converter that converts HDMI signals of a first type to SFI (Serders Framer Interface) signals of a second type, the first converter further comprising: a second converter that converts the SFI signals of the second type to the HDMI signals of the first type, wherein the signals of the first type comprise HDMI electrical signals and the signals of the second type comprise SFI electrical signals, wherein the second converter recovers an HDMI clock signal present in the HDMI signals of the first type that are input to the first converter, and wherein the first converter converts 10-bit data of the HDMI signals to 8-bit XGMII data.