Japanese supplier, Socionext, has developed a new ‘HV5’ series of chips that it will show at Ceatec and which support HDMI V2.1, to allow the display of 8K video with low latency. The SC1H05AC01 is an interface bridge chip and the SC1H05AT1 chip is a video processor.
The bridge chip supports the use of different interfaces and allows systems to support existing 8K video equipment which use four HDMI 2.0 cables to create the full resolution.
| SC1H05AC01 | SC1H05AC02 | |
| Input Interface | HDMI 2.0 x 4 | V-by-One® HS 4 Lane x 4 |
| Output Interface | HDMI 2.1 x 1 | HDMI 2.1 x 1 |
HV5 Series “SC1H05AT1” (35mm x 35mm FCBGA)
The SC1H05AT1 is designed to support the Advanced BS 8K broadcasting system and works with V-By-One or HDMI 2.0/2.1. The chip has a full 8K upscaler with ‘super resolution’ (8K Plus) as well as HDR, MEMC processing and support for local dimming. Memory interfaces are DDR4-2400/2667MHz 32bit x 3ch.
These chips are the first of a line of products with various combinations of input/output formats and image processing functionalities in the future.
