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Product data sheet Rev. 02 — 8 October 2009 8 of 21
NXP Semiconductors
PTN3360A
Enhanced HDMI/DVI level shifter with inverting 1.1 V HPD
6. Functional description
Refer to Figure 2 “Functional diagram of PTN3360A”.
The PTN3360A level shifts four lanes of low-swing AC-coupled differential input signals to
DVI and HDMI compliant open-drain current-steering differential output signals, up to
2.5 Gbit/s per lane. It has integrated 50 Ω termination resistors for AC-coupled differential
input signals. An enable signal OE_N can be used to turn off the TMDS inputs and
outputs, thereby minimizing power consumption. The TMDS outputs, HPD_SINK input
and DDC_SINK I/Os are back-power safe to disallow current flow from a powered sink
while the PTN3360A is unpowered.
The PTN3360A's DDC channel provides active level shifting and buffering, allowing 3.3 V
source-side termination and 5 V sink-side termination. The sink-side DDC ports are
equipped with a rise time accelerator enabling drive of long cables or high bus
capacitance. This enables the system designer to isolate bus capacitance to meet HDMI
DDC version 1.3a distance specification. The PTN3360A offers back-power safe sink-side
I/Os to disallow backdrive current from the DDC clock and data lines when power is off or
when DDC is not enabled. An enable signal DCC_EN enables the DDC level shifter block.
The PTN3360A also provides voltage translation for the Hot Plug Detect (HPD) signal
from 0 V to 5 V on the sink side, inverting and level-shifting to 1.1V/0 V on the source side.
The PTN3360A does not re-time any data. It contains no state machines except for the
DDC/I
2
C-bus block. No inputs or outputs of the device are latched or clocked. Because
the PTN3360A acts as a transparent level shifter, no reset is required.
6.1 Enable and disable features
PTN3360A offers different ways to enable or disable functionality, using the Output Enable
(OE_N) and DDC Enable (DDC_EN) inputs. Whenever the PTN3360A is disabled, the
device will be in Standby mode and power consumption will be minimal; otherwise the
PTN3360A will be in Active mode and power consumption will be nominal. These two
inputs each affect the operation of PTN3360A differently: OE_N affects only the TMDS
channels, and DDC_EN affects only the DDC channel. HPD_SINK does not affect either
of the channels. The following sections and truth table describe their detailed operation.
6.1.1 Hot plug detect
The HPD channel of PTN3360A functions as a level-shifting buffer to pass the HPD logic
signal from the display sink device (via input HPD_SINK) on to the display source device
(via output HPD_SOURCE_N).
The output logic state of HPD_SOURCE_N output always follows the inverse logic state of
input HPD_SINK, regardless of whether the device is in Active or Standby mode.