These are very specialistic Displayport multiplexers with on board timing equalizers and output drivers.
I'm trying to build a displayport KVM. nothing in the market satisfies my needs. However, most of the KVM's out there use this chip and i can get the chips, no problem. But i need the datasheet ( they talk I2C ) ...
i want to make a multiplexer that can switch between 3 computers. Each computer has 3 displayports and i have 3 monitors. so 9 in , 3 out . the switch includes a USB3.0 hub with 6 user accessible downstream ports and a seventh special function port.
The idea is to switch keyboard , mouse, spacemouse, smart keypad , digitizer over together with the displays. I have everything worked out. , but i'm in doubt between using TI displayport chips together with Pericom redriver chips ( i'm driving long cables so i want to clean up the eye patterns on the displayport ) or these parade tech chips.
I've bought a number of 2 channel dp switches and studied many schematics of hi end laptops, graphics cards and docking stations. They all use Parade chips. nobody mucks with TI or Pericom or the other 'known' brands. Apparently the Parade chips have more features and some secret sauce that nobody else has for this purpose.