Gordon Hands, Director of Strategic Marketing, Lattice Semiconductor

Over the past five years, source synchronous interfaces, consisting of a clock and multiple data bits, have become a common method for moving image data within electronic systems. This technique has been embodied in products such as the National Semiconductor Channel Link devices and the Texas Instrument Flat Link devices, as well as the Camera Link Standard. Although they originally evolved as a solution to transferring data through the hinges of laptop computers, these interfaces have become increasingly common in a variety of applications, including automotive telematics, industrial control, and consumer devices.