THine Announces Yamaichi Electronics' Development Of Flexible Printed Circuit Cable For THine's Next-Generation High-Speed Interface Specification, V-by-One US

THine Electronics, Inc., the global leader in high-speed serial interface and provider of mixed-signal LSI, has been collaborating with several partners in development of transmission lines for THine’s next-generation high-speed interface specification for 4K and 8K video images, V-by-One US, and Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd., one of THine’s partners, will deliver sample products of flexible printed circuit cable that provides potential compliance with V-by-One US specification.

THine has established V-by-One US specification as a next-generation high-speed interface technology that follows THine’s high-speed interface technology V-by-One HS, which is now used as interface in most of 4K televisions in the world as de facto standard. V-by-One US specification defines high-speed transmission rate of 16Gbps per lane at the maximum (16,000,000,000 bits per second), and high-speed transmission as quadruple as V-by-One HS will be possible according to the specification. In order to accomplish transmission lines for 8K video images by V-by-One US while maintaining the number of transmission lines for transmission of 4K video images by V-by-One HS, THine has been collaborating in development of transmission lines with several harness, connector, and material manufacturers who agree to standardization of V-by-One US technology.

While Yamaichi has commercialized high-speed-transmission FPC (Flexible Printed Circuit) cable “YFLEX” based on its technology for designing and manufacturing FPC board, it has developed a high-speed-transmission FPC cable “YFCS Series” that provides potential compliance with V-by-One US specification. Delivery of samples of “YFCS Series” will be started and Yamaichi plans to commercialize the series in 2018.

“While THine plans to release ASSP products incorporating V-by-One US technology in 2018, THine would like to welcome new type of cable adapted for V-by-One US specification. Since “YFCS Series” is based on flexible printed circuit board technology, it has amount of loss and frequency characteristics different from those of flexible flat cables, and choices of cables for customers using V-by-One® US may increase. For example, it becomes possible for customers to use appropriate cables according to their usage environment.

As 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games and 2020 Beijing Winter Olympic Games are approaching, THine will continue to expand collaboration with harness, connector, and material manufacturers who agree to standardization of V-by-One US technology, and will propose low-cost 4K and 8K video image transmission systems by V-by-One US. THine aims to contribute to customers and innovation of video image market as a leading company of high-speed interface technology,” says Yasuhiro Takada, CEO of THine Electronics.