DisplayLink Corp. has announced support for the Windows Aero 3-D interface in Windows Vista for its family of network display semiconductors, making it one of the first companies to enable USB 2.0 and WiMedia wireless display connections for Windows Vista.

The company will demonstrated this technology at WinHEC 2007 on DisplayLink-enabled products, including USB displays, notebook docking stations and display adapters from Samsung, Toshiba, Kensington, IODATA and Sunix.

DisplayLink’s solution is built for “plug-and-play” simplicity enabling notebook docking stations and multimonitor computing for all PC users. The technology enables the 3-D capabilities of the Windows Aero interface on multiple screens for an unparalleled user experience on USB-connected displays. Up to six displays can be added to a computer over a single USB connector when using the Windows Vista Basic color scheme interface.

The DisplayLink solution for Windows Vista delivers high-quality images, including 32-bit color images and smooth DVD video playback. Interactivity with mouse and keyboard is quick and responsive, and the solution supports monitor resolutions as high as 1600 x 1200 (ultra extended graphics aArray - UXGA) and 1680 x 1050 (widescreen super extended graphics array - WSXGA+).

DisplayLink’s solutions combine a virtual graphics card (VGC) software driver for Windows XP and Windows Vista on the host computer and DisplayLink’s DL-120 and DL-160 hardware rendering engine (HRE) chips that are embedded in displays, projectors, notebook docks, adapters and other display systems to convert the compressed video information into pixels for the display. The solution uses a lossless compression algorithm to transmit graphics across a wide range of standard wired and wireless network interfaces.

VGC software version 4.1 and the DL-120 and DL-160 chips are available for quantity shipments from DisplayLink and its worldwide representatives.

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