Lattice Announces First Programmable ASSP (pASSP) Interface Bridge for Mobile Image Sensors and Displays
- Industry’s first programmable bridging device that resolves interface mismatches between mobile application processors, image sensors and displays.
- Defines a new class of programmable ASSPs combining the flexibility and fast time to market of an FPGA with the power and functional optimization of an ASSP.
- Ideal for a variety of markets including VR, drones, cameras, wearable devices, mobile devices and human machine interfaces (HMIs).
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The new CrossLink device combines the flexibility and fast time to market of an FPGA with the power and functional optimization of an ASSP to create a new product class called programmable ASSP (pASSP™). (Graphic: Business Wire)
The CrossLink device’s features include:
- World’s fastest MIPI® D-PHY bridging device that delivers up to 4K UHD resolution at 12 Gbps bandwidth.
- Supports popular mobile, camera, display and legacy interfaces such as MIPI D-PHY, MIPI CSI-2, MIPI DSI, MIPI DPI, CMOS, and SubLVDS, LVDS and more.
- Industry’s smallest package size with a 6 mm2 option.
- Lowest power programmable bridging solution in active mode.
- Built-in sleep mode.
- Takes the strongest features from ASSPs and FPGAs to deliver the best solution of both worlds.
“The latest wave of image capture and display technology, including
drones and VR, is creating real industry excitement. Combining these new
technologies with a global base of 3.7 billion smartphones and tablets
that’s set to rise more than 30 percent by 2020, all equates to a wide
variety of interfaces that must be integrated to ensure compatibility,”
said
Bridging the Video Connectivity Gap
Image Sensor Applications
Lattice’s CrossLink bridge can multiplex, merge and arbitrate between multiple image sensors to a single input. The device can also interface between high-end industrial and popular A/V image sensors with mobile application processors. This is ideal for 360, action, surveillance and DSLR cameras along with drones, augmented reality products and more.
Display Applications
With the CrossLink device, it is possible to receive video data from one MIPI DSI interface and send it out over two MIPI DSI interfaces at half the bandwidth. The same video stream can be split to two interfaces, ideal for virtual reality headsets and mobile set top boxes. Customers can also integrate consumer and industrial panels with RGB or LVDS interfaces with mobile applications processors. The CrossLink bridge can convert from MIPI DSI to multiple lanes of CMOS or LVDS interfaces such as MIPI DPI, OpenLDI and proprietary interface formats for HMIs, smart displays, smart homes and more.
“The CrossLink bridge has the flexibility of an FPGA and the performance
of an ASSP for video technologies,” said
Availability
CrossLink evaluation boards are available now from Lattice and its distributors and production devices will be available shortly. To learn more, please visit www.latticesemi.com/CrossLink.
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