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Gennum chipset. Anyone used these? HDTV equaliser, cable driver.

Gennum chipset. Anyone used these? HDTV equaliser, cable driver.

Gennum chipset. Anyone used these? HDTV equaliser, cable driver.

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I have to design a circuit that accepts HDTV signals.  The circuit must comply with spec SMPTE 292M.  It's also been suggested to me to use the Gennum chipset GS1524 which is a cable equaliser and GS1528 which is a cable driver chip.  The equaliser chip accepts the signals to the system and is at the input.  The driver is at the output and sends the signals off when the system is done with them.

My first question is whether these chips are any good?  Are they reliable?  Do you get flaky things like signals out when there are no signals in, for example.  I've just been burned before by pretty data sheets and products that i don't have experience with.

Thanks,
groundhog1

RE: Gennum chipset. Anyone used these? HDTV equaliser, cable driver.

Talk with the application engineers.

RE: Gennum chipset. Anyone used these? HDTV equaliser, cable driver.

I have had good experiences with Gennum chips.  They are a little known company with good products.  I haven't used the ones you are talking about, but give their apps guy a call and ask him to tell of some customers using those chips.

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