The latest technology to be called for in the broadcast market is the 12Gb/s serial digital interface (12G-SDI) which can carry uncompressed full colour 4K and UHD video at 60fps, making it a strong contender for the 4K production format of choice.
To achieve the long cable runs that successful deployment of 12G-SDI requires, the physical layer design constraints that apply at 1″ wavelengths must be understood. The company’s team of consultant engineers has a wealth of knowledge of signal path integrity techniques, characteristics of PCB substrates and tracking routing rules, providing a painless and lower cost short cut to 12G designs.
Enabling simple translation to uncompressed video over IP and SDI carried on optical fibre, electrical 12G-SDI on coaxial cable is an SMPTE standard and can be transferred easily from existing 4K infrastructures based on 4-cables of 3G-SDI. Omnitek’s 12Gb/s designs and use of driver and equaliser technologies reach distances of over 50m, making 12G-SDI a viable single cable point-to-point technology for 4K video systems.