The SiI 861 PanelLink Controller
Microcontroller
Configuration
(optional)
Key
SiI 861 Features
PROM
PanelLink® Monitor Controller
• Provides consistent highest quality
pure digital visual experience
(optional)
PanelLink Rx
(optional)
• Enables easy development of DVI-
compliant, pure digital LCD monitors
• Eliminates analog image processing
artifacts ("Pixel Dust")
Crystal
LVDS or Parallel
Panel
• A cost effective, single-chip solution
Power
Supply
Inputs
• PanelLink Digital receiver
Front Panel Button Control
- Widest adopted DVI implementation
- Compatible to all DVI hosts and displays
- High bandwidth (25-140 mpps)
- Supports all input resolutions up to
SXGA+(1400X1050)
• High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection
- Accepts encrypted and protected digital
entertainment video using HDCP for DVI
- Robust, cost-effective and transparent
method for receiving digital
entertainment, enabling viewing of
HDTV and SDTV movies
- Supported by MPA member companies
- Extends PC security to the display
• Parallel 24-bit RGB digital input
- Supports dual digital monitors
Inverter
(optional)
- Frame rate preservation locks outgoing
frame rate to prevent temporal
Silicon Image’s
SiI 861 Starter Kit
artifacts such as jutter
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and tearing
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- Automatically upscales any lower
resolution input to any output
resolution up to SXGA+
The CP861DVI Starter Kit includes all the
hardware, software and documentation to
quickly bring new pure digital, DVI-compliant
monitors to production. The SiI Digital Visual
Editor is a Windows-based GUI utility that
allows (Read/Write) access to the various
SiI 861 registers, EDID EEPROM registers
and to the configuration EEPROM. The 8051
firmware allows you to control the flat panel
power sequencing, backlight, and all of the
OSD messages. The complete firmware
source code is included for customization.
• Color Management
- Advanced dithering algorithm allows
24-bit true color (16.7 million) to be
shown on 18-bit TFT panels
- Two programmable look-up gamma
tables can be used to optimize gamma,
color temperature and contrast for
movies as well as graphical inputs
Outputs
• LVDS Transmitter
- Compatible with single channel
LVDS panels
- Improves reliability, lowers total system
cost and board space requirements
• Parallel 24-bit One-pixel/clock or 48-bit
Two-pixel/clock output
- Flexible interface supports all panel
resolutions up to SXGA+
- True color (16.7 million) support
Smart Integration Enables Low er
Cost Systems and Speed To Market
• No External Microcontroller or
Memory Required
• On-Screen-Display (OSD)
- Advanced programmable OSD allows
for localized messaging for specific
regions and market segments
- RAM-based character mapped OSD
- Built-in loss-of-sync and out-of-range
functions
Contents include:
Hardw are
• SiI 861 reference design board
• Matrox G400 DVI-compliant graphics card
• Power supply and cables
Softw are
• HDCP evaluation software
• Sil's Digital Visual Editor
• 8051 firmware with source code
• Evaluation C compiler
• Sample OSDs for reference
New Improved PixelPrecision™
Image Processing
• Scaling Algorithm
- Finite impulse response filter provides
high image quality for both text and
graphics using positive and negative
weighting
• Internal Clock Multiplier
- 5X clock multiplier, allows use of
lower cost, lower frequency crystal
or oscillator
• Power Management
- Supports DVI power management
functionality
Documentation
• SiI 861 starter kit user’s guide
• SiI 861 data sheet
• Reference schematics
• Application notes
Part Number - SiI861CM208
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2
Jutter - Objects moving in abrupt steps across the screen.
Tearing - The screen splits from one image to the next along a
horizontal line.
Silicon Image, Inc.
1060 E. Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086
T 408.616.4000 F 408.830.9530
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