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 […]
Tag: QuickLogic
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, […]
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, […]
CES 2013
Greetings…should you be headed to Las Vegas for the four days of electronics, sore feet, and ridiculous monorail lines that is CES, QuickLogic will again be hosting a private meeting room on the show floor during the entirety of the event. We’ll be detailing more about what we will be showing at the event in […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
