As if you hadn't noticed, the smartphone is already at the center of the universe for nearly everybody in the Millennial Generation forward, and the phenomena is pushing down to snag older and older users—that is, as long as their vision is still good enough to see those tiny screens.

To accelerate the smartphone becoming the center of every user's universe, Analogix Semiconductor Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has stepped up its SlimPort technology push to interface smartphones and tablets to any nearby display.

"We believe that users will increasingly use their smartphone or tablet as their main computer, but to do so they need the ability to blow-up their display to any size," said Andre Bouwer , Analogix vice president of marketing, at the recent Global Press eSummit 2013 here. "SlimPort solves that problem with full HD resolutions, 3-D compatibility and support for the emerging ultra-high-resolution 4K standard. It even works with multiple screens at the same time."

SlimPort leverages the DisplayPort open-standard, which has been adopted by most computer makers since they do not have pay royalty fees for the high-definition multi-media interface (HDMI) to HDMI Licensing LLC. Yet DispalyPort is easy to interface to HDMI displays with a simple interface cord. SlimPort goes one step further by directly interfacing to the driver chips already designed into smartphones and tablets using DisplayPort, but multiplexing their signals onto the standard micro-USB connector already used for charging Android smartphones and tablets.