Patent ID: 8179984

Claim:
A multifunctional transmitter, comprising: N output units each comprising a serializer and an output driver; and a control unit, according to a mode selection signal, selecting a first set of output units from the N output units to transmit a first video data compatible with a first transmission interface under a first transmission mode and selecting a second set of output units from the first set of output units to transmit a second video data compatible with a second transmission interface which is different from the first transmission interface under a second transmission mode, wherein the first video data comprises a plurality of X-bit data, and wherein the control unit comprises a data conversion unit configured to encode a first input data into the first video data with the plurality of X-bit data, write the first video data to at least one asynchronous FIFO in a first clock rate, and output the first video data to the first set of output units from the at least one asynchronous FIFO in a second clock rate.