New QuickLogic Article…

A new article by a couple of folks at QuickLogic has been published by our friends at Design News: http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=257801&dfpPParams=ind_184,aid_257801&dfpLayout=article The article touches on Inter-processor Communications, CAM I/F, Data Transfer Offload, and Wake Up and Verify PSBs from QuickLogic. Questions? […]

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We’re Connecting, One PHS at a Time

Today we announced another in a line of designs with our good friends at Kyocera.  Building on our VEE and DPO designs with them, we’ve expanded into the connectivity realm to integrate a CSSP featuring inter-processor communication technology.  A high-level view of the technology is found here, with an earlier blog written back in July […]

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CES 2013 Press

Following up on our CES 2013 show coverage, here is an embed of an interview with QuickLogic and EngineeringTV, hosted by Joe Desposito, editor-in-chief of Electronic Design. The original video can be found at http://www.engineeringtv.com/video/Quicklogics-Visual-Enhancement It was my pleasure speaking with Joe about VEE, DPO, and the ArcticLink III VX.     […]

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Presentation from the FPD Forum

As promised, here is the presentation given at today’s FPD Forum in Taipei, Taiwan by our own Edward Lien.   As you can see, the presentation centered about QuickLogic’s ArcticLink III VX CSSP, and how VEE‘s display viewability and DPO‘s system power savings can benefit designers and OEM’s of smartphones and tablets. Happy to answer any […]

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On the 13 Variants of the ArcticLink III VX…

The question arose today of alternative input/output architectures the ArcticLink III VX that aren’t explicitly listed. First, let’s start by listing the 13 variants Click the chart to embiggen I should also note that the interfaces which the customer requires are determined by their choice of processor and display–while we’ve address this ad nauseum before, […]

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On the Snapdragon…

Welcome back to QuickLogic HotSpot. QuickLogic announced today that we now have a daughter card available that connects to the DragonBoard (based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Processors).  Our card accepts the MIPI-DSI output of the DragonBoard.  It embeds a QuickLogic ArcticLink III VX5 CSSP device that converts the MIPI-DSI signal to LVDS.  As it’s a VX device, […]

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On the ArcticLink III for Cameras…

Today’s blog deals with an adjacent market for the ArcticLink III (AL III), digital cameras, and specifically the embedded display. As I start, I should be clear and say that we are not talking about putting VEE and DPO into the image capture (camera) path.   As many of you know, we license the core of […]

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On Moving the BX to a VX

A question was asked yesterday about the scope of work/complexity of a customer moving from an ArcticLink III BX design to an ArcticLink III VX design.  This chart provides an easy primer (click to embiggen) As you can see, the scope of work is not great.  The pinouts are identical, meaning there are no (read: […]

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On the BX….

As Andy Pease mentioned in our Q3 2012 earnings call just now, QuickLogic has formally announced the ArcticLink III BX family of devices for display bridging applications. As a bit of background, which is familiar to those who attended the call, a customer decision to use a display bridge device is made very early in […]

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VEE, Contrast Ratio, and Reflections…

We’ve preached ad nauseum here on QuickLogic HotSpot about VEE and its ability to increase viewability on displays.   We’ve showed pictures and videos, and many of our faithful readers have been able to experience VEE in person on various production smartphones/tablets/pico projectors or on our demo systems.  Viewing is easy to prove…but how about quantifying […]

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