OnChip Devices' Latest Chip Protects Your HDMI Interface Against Electrostatic Discharge

HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) represents one of the most important connectivity interfaces for current/future A/V equipment, but, as all electronic products, it's also subjected to the hazards that can occur due to various power-related problems. And this is exactly the reason why the people over at OnChip Devices have developed what they tout to be the industry's lowest capacitance ESD protection chip to support the HDMI 1.3 specification, designed to be integrated in future HDMI modules and to provide a higher level of protection against electrostatic discharge.

OnChip's highly integrated solution provides 8 channels of ESD protection and is designed to support the latest HDMI 1.3 specification, as well as previous standards such as HDMI 1.2. The OnChip ESD2100 offers ultra-low line capacitance to ensure high signal integrity for video formats such as 1080p. Moreover, the ESD2100 is offered in various industry standard IC packages to help PCB designers' flexibility in routing, while the chip design and its ultra-low line capacitance enable customers to improve time-to-market of their consumer products.

"OnChip's ESD2100 family is ideally suited for all high speed I/O Port ESD/TVS protection including the HDMI 1.3 and USB2.0," said Sona Joe, product marketing manager. "OnChip's new ESD protection chip delivers superior performance while offering very aggressive pricing, ultra-low line capacitance, and HDMI 1.3 compliance in very small IC package." The ESD2100 chip delivers up to 8 kV of ESD protection in contact discharge per IEC61000-4-2 standards for up to 8 channels. Total line capacitance for the chip is as low as 0.6 pF, with excellent capacitance matching of less than 0.05 pF for TMDS pairs.

The OnChip ESD2100-08MR ESD protection chip is available immediately worldwide at $0.24 USD in quantities of 10,000, clearly targeting the most important A/V manufacturers around.

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