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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
When is an LCD better than an OLED?
…when it contains a QuickLogic CSSP with VEE. Watch for a more detailed explanation of this in a video blog in the coming weeks. […]
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.” […]
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 […]
