On Orion

Today we announced another solution for the Texas Instruments Sitara line, our Orion reference solution. Much like the Beagle Bone CAM I/F solution we announced a few weeks ago, our Orion solution allows OEMs using the Sitara platform to expand the capabilities of their systems through alternative connectivity interfaces. The Orion solution allows for connectivity […]

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How the ArcticLink III VX MIPI2 to MIPI4 Enables Lower-cost 720p Displays

Of the 13 different silicon variants of the ArcticLink III VX devices, the one that gets the most questions is the VX3B2F, or the MIPI 2-lane to MIPI 4-lane bridge with VEE and DPO.  In particular, we are asked ‘why would a customer need this?’  Here’s why: Often in the smartphone market, OEMs ramp to […]

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BeagleBone Camera Cape Links

Back today with a few quick links related to our recent TI BeagleBone announcement.  The good folks at Engadget were nice enough to mention Camera Cape as one of the most attractive accessory boards for the BeagleBone development system.  We are very excited about CSSP-based CAM I/F solution and how this extends QuickLogic’s connectivity solutions […]

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On the T.I. Ecosystem

As followers of QuickLogic, you no doubt saw a fairly significant announcement from us on Monday – that we’re joining the Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) Sitara™ ARM® processor ecosystem with our Camera Interface (CAM I/F) CSSP.  That announcement was the culmination of several months of architecture, development, and marketing efforts between QuickLogic, TI, BeagleBoard.org (the open source community that supports Beaglebone) and CircuitCo (the […]

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On BeagleBone Camera Cape and CAM I/F

Today we announced our latest connectivity solution, the ‘CAM I/F’ camera interface solution for Texas Instruments Sitara line of processors.  Sitara is a lower-cost line of processors aimed for markets such as mobile enterprise, portable consumer, industrial tablet and industrial smartphone markets. As with all products, design trade-offs need to be made by makers of […]

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PC Magazine Reviews PoP (and VEE!)

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2405437,00.asp PC Magazine has published their review of the PoP Video, and mentions VEE… “…Visual Enhancement Engine.The results are good and I mostly left the Auto-Enhance option on, as it made somewhat-dim images a bit easier on the eyes.” […]

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On the URBANO PROGRESSO…

The hot news at QuickLogic today is the announcement of our new production smartphone, the Kyocera “URBANO PROGRESSO”.  As our press release mentioned, the URBANO PROGRESSO uses a QuickLogic ArcticLink II VX4 device, featuring an MDDI Type II to RGB bridge, as well as VEE and DPO.   Key to note here is that VEE and […]

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PoP is Shipping…

For those US-based folks who ordered a PoP video (featuring VEE) you should likely be receiving it any day now, as the PoP’s are now shipping.  According to the fine folks over there, shipping to Europe will commence shortly, followed by Asia. More to come from us in the coming days, including some connectivity-related items! […]

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Effective Lumens, and How the PoP Video with VEE Outperforms the Competition

So, the title pretty much says it all.   We’ve loaded a new video blog to our YouTube channel, and embedded it here for your viewing pleasure. The crux of the video: Lumens, as a measure of the light source brightness of a pico projector, is scientific Lumens, as a measure of the viewability (thus, image […]

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