Other Parts Discussed in Thread: SN75DP130
Hi, i am attempting to make a three channel, 2 to 1 mulitplexer for displayport with USB switchover. (Basically a Keyboard/video/mouse that can switch DP and USB between 2 computers, with the specialty that i am switching over 3 displayport links since the computers drive 3 monitors. The USB port is 3.0 and has 6 downstream ports
My question is on the displayport block : i am using the HD3SS215 (i don't want to use the microbga package of the 214 as it makes my board too expensive) as multiplexer followed by a SN7575DP130 as equalizer/redriver. There will be 3 sets of these in the mux. ( 6 incoming DP's , 3 outgoing DP's)
Since the incoming signals are already capacitively coupled ( the signals leave the computers like that ): how does the multiplexer gets its common mode voltage ? does it get it from the pull ups in the sn75dp130 ?
Do i need to add capacitors on the differential pairs between the mux and the SN75dp130 or not ?
The following path looks logical to me :
DP input connector -> MUX -> SN75DP130 -> capacitor -> DP output connector. This gets the common mode from the 75DP130 inputs on to the mux.
or should i do this:
DP input connector -> capacitor-> MUX -> SN75DP130 -> capacitor -> DP output connector. (does not seem logical as the signal is already capacitvely coupled coming in )
or this
DP input connector -> capacitor-> MUX -> capacitor -> SN75DP130 -> capacitor -> DP output connector. ( does not seem logical as now the mux does not have a common mode voltage )
Thanks