OPTOELECTRONIC COMPOSITE WIRING COMPONENT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS USING THE SAME

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optoelectronic composite wiring component which has characteristics of both of low power consumption performance in a transmission using electric wiring and large transmission capacity in an optical transmission using optical wiring and is high in a power efficiency with respect to transmission capacity.

SOLUTION: This optoelectronic composite wiring member of the present invention has a transmission path switching mechanism for switching whether to switch a transmission signal by an electric transmission path or to switch the transmission signal by an optical transmission path according to a modulation rate or a transmission rate of the transmission signal. Low power consumption is attained by stopping power supply to an optical transmitting/receiving part and transmitting the signal by the electric path when the modulation rate or the transmission rate of the transmission signal is low and the large transmission capacity is attained by transmitting the transmission signal by an optical transmission system via the optical transmission path when the modulation rate or the transmission rate is high.

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