<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">2013/11/15 joem <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joem@martindale-electric.co.uk" target="_blank">joem@martindale-electric.co.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<br>
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Luke/Aaron, you need to get some shoes on<br>
and go make a mini HDMI connector that is a little bit smaller (so as to<br>
prevent it being used as a video connector) and use it as ethernet<br>
connector.<br>
<br>
Notice all the tablets out there don't have physical ethernet?<br></blockquote><div><br>A lot of those ultra-thin laptop don't have Ethernet ports as well. Laptop manufactures are simply ditching Ethernet in favour of Wifi and the added sales on USB ethernet Dongles.<br>
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For lack of a decent substitute ethernet connector that is thin enough<br>
to go on a tablet.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In the old days there were Ethernet PCMCIA Ethernet cards, type 1, with a slide out frame for ethernet.<br>Like: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:XJACK_network_card_extended.jpg">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:XJACK_network_card_extended.jpg</a><br>
<br></div><div>But haven't seen that for ages. Probably because the slide frame is very fragile.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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It could be designed so that future EOMAs could have it and so too<br>
should the Plasma Active tablets. And thin stacks of future server<br>
boards.<br>
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You guys need to use your industrial contacts and muscle and go pull<br>
some strings to make it happen. The alternative is I go make it in<br>
mini-HDMI size and just make cable adapter (which will lead to<br>
confusion). I'm sure my adventure will end in tears and a sorry mess but<br>
it be better than nothing.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Luke <a href="http://et.al">et.al</a>. have a lot of brains and will power. Guys like Intel/Apple have the needed muscle/influnce/bulk-sales. To make that happen. But alas, they don't seem interested. Nor the IEEE taskforce resposible for the Ethernet standard.<br>
<br></div><div>Come to think of it, the RJ-45 size was already an issue in the PCMCIA days, and nothing changed.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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HDMI has at least 4 tx/rx pairs and a lot more - just use the tx/rx<br>
pairs only and its good enough to get gigabit ethernet.<br>
The ethernet magnetics chip is very small these days costing under $1,<br>
so the overall solution could fit inside an EOMA.<br>
<br>
There is some standard out there milling around<br>
to support ethernet through HDMI, but I don't fancy that as a better<br>
solution than a low profile dedicated ethernet connector long overdue<br>
for the tablet market to replace the bulky RJ connector.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The HDMI 1.4 standard includes a few pins for Ethernet, max 100Mbps. One could make a breakout cable. Splitting the Ethernet and HDMI outside the tablet and no need to "invent" an extra connector nor adding it to the eoma-68 carries or card-fronts<br>
<br></div><div>Too bad those are not on the market yet.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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