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two AD8115s to create a nonblocking, gain-of-two, 128
×
16
crosspoint that restricts the wire-ORing at the output to only
four outputs.
Additionally, by using the lower eight outputs from each of the
two Rank 2 AD8115s, a blocking 128
×
32 crosspoint array can
be realized. There are, however, some drawbacks to this tech-
nique. The offset voltages of the various cascaded devices will
accumulate and the bandwidth limitations of the devices will
compound. In addition, the extra devices will consume more
current and take up more board space. Once again, the overall
system design specifications will determine how to make the
various tradeoffs.
Multichannel Video
The excellent video specifications of the AD8114/AD8115 make
them ideal candidates for creating composite video crosspoint
switches. These can be made quite dense by taking advantage of
the AD8114/AD8115’s high level of integration and the fact that
composite video requires only one crosspoint channel per sys-
tem video channel. There are, however, other video formats that
can be routed with the AD8114/AD8115 requiring more than
one crosspoint channel per video channel.
Some systems use twisted-pair wiring to carry video signals.
These systems utilize differential signals and can lower costs
because they use lower cost cables, connectors and termination
methods. They also have the ability to lower crosstalk and reject
common-mode signals, which can be important for equipment
that operates in noisy environments or where common-mode
voltages are present between transmitting and receiving equipment.
In such systems, the video signals are differential; there is a
positive and negative (or inverted) version of the signals. These
complementary signals are transmitted onto each of the two
wires of the twisted pair, yielding a first order zero common-
mode voltage. At the receive end, the signals are differentially
received and converted back into a single-ended signal.
When switching these differential signals, two channels are
required in the switching element to handle the two differential
signals that make up the video channel. Thus, one differential
video channel is assigned to a pair of crosspoint channels, both
input and output. For a single AD8114/AD8115, eight differential
video channels can be assigned to the 16 inputs and 16 outputs.
This will effectively form an 8
×
8 differential crosspoint switch.
Programming such a device will require that inputs and outputs
be programmed in pairs. This information can be deduced by
inspection of the programming format of the AD8114/AD8115
and the requirements of the system.
There are other analog video formats requiring more than one
analog circuit per video channel. One two-circuit format that is
commonly being used in systems such as satellite TV, digital
cable boxes and higher quality VCRs, is called S-video or Y/C
video. This format carries the brightness (luminance or Y)
portion of the video signal on one channel and the color (chromi-
nance, chroma or C) on a second channel.
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Figure 43. Nonblocking 128
×
16 Array (128
×
32 Blocking)