Daisy Chain more than 4 Units on TILE from before 2021

Daisy Chain more than 4 Units on TILE from before 2021

If you have more than 4 Tile units and want to use the Daisy Chain connectivity mode, you have only one option: connect branches of 4 units in Daisy Chain mode and each branch connects to an output of your graphics card.
With this option, you will need a graphics card with the same number of Display Port outputs as your setup requires.

For example, imagine you will use 8 Tile units. You can connect 4 Tile units in Daisy Chain mode, resulting in 2 branches of 4 Tile units each one, that will connect to two different Display Port outputs.


Important note: This may not work with some graphics cards. Many of them limit the maximum number of LCD/Monitors. You should double-check the graphic card specifications and ensure it supports the connection of the same number of Tile units you will use. Certain graphics cards do not allow the connection of more than 4 LCD/Monitors even using the Daisy-Chain mode.

All the USB cables will connect directly to the computer. Here you can use USB expansion boards to expand the number of USB ports of your computer.

The following picture demonstrates an example of 8 Tile units using Daisy Chain connectivity for a brach of 4 Tile units and two Display Port connections from the graphic card to connect the two branches.



Resolution in this configuration:

As each Tile unit has a resolution of 1920X1080, after configuring the Daisy Chain setup, the total resolution needs to be calculated according to the number of Tile units you have.

In this example, you have 8 Tile units in Portrait orientation (composed of 2 rows and 4 columns), meaning the total resolution will be ( 1920 X 2 ) X ( 1080 X 4 ) = 3840 X 4320.

Please note: On TILEs from 2022 onwards, it is possible to create branches of 6 daisy-chained TILEs to connect to a single DP port.


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