Introduction to HDMI 2.1 Active Optical Cable
HDMI1.4 specification defines an Active Cable assembly which contains active circuit components with Equalizer(EQ) function.
Active Cable are unidirectional
Differentiation between a Source side(input) and a Sink side (Output)
Active Cable generally follow two types of constructions :
- Copper Based—Use Active Circuit to improve the signal and stransports the data over copper wire
- Fiber Based—Use Active circuits to improve the signal and stransports the data over optical fiber (Also Known as “Active Optical Cable”, AOC)
Under the development, HDMI is 2.1 version, the bandwidth also raise to 48Gbps, but the passive cable is hard to satisfy marketing and end-user’s application, the HDMI 2.1 Active Optical Cable is become very important to solve this since to can reach long distance without any signal loss.
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