Lattice Semiconductor, Aptina Team on Dual Image Sensor Stereo Camera Reference Design
Lattice Semiconductor and Aptina will showcase a low cost, dual image sensor design at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, January 10-13, 2012. The dual image sensor design helps ISP vendors to quickly offer multiple camera solutions for the consumer market. Lattice’s private hospitality meeting suite will be held in the Las Vegas [...]
Xilinx Targets 3D and 4K2K Displays with Reference Designs and ACDC Baseboard
Xilinx introduced reference designs and a development baseboard for speeding the development of next-generation, 3D and 4K2K display technologies. The 4K2K Mosaic and HDTV-to-4K2K up-converter targeted reference designs are based on the new 28nm Kintex-7 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The new ACDC (Acquisition, Contribution, Distribution and Consumption) 1.0 Baseboard also uses Kintex-7 FPGA devices. [...]
Valens HDBaseT Camera Reference Design
Valens Semiconductor introduced a HDBaseT camera reference design solution. The LatticeECP3 FPGA device can be used for multiplexing the video streams and formatting the data to the Valens HDBaseT Tx driver. The LatticeECP3 FPGA device has the necessary memory blocks, FPGA logic, SERDES and configurable I/O to implement a variety of applications. The LatticeECP3 FPGA [...]
Xilinx Acquires Modelware, Debuts 100G Traffic Management Reference Design
Xilinx has acquired Modelware, which is a provider of traffic management/packet processing silicon intellectual property (IP) cores and reference designs that simplify system development and enable greater differentiation for networking applications supporting 10G, 40G, 100G and beyond. Xilinx also announced a FPGA-based 100G traffic management reference design for speeding evaluation and implementation of high bandwidth [...]
Xilinx Broadcast Real-Time Video Engine Targeted Design Platform
Xilinx introduced their Broadcast Real-Time Video Engine Targeted Design Platform. The Real-Time Video Engine Targeted Design Platform consists of a broadcast-quality Video and Image Processing IP pack. The Xilinx Video and Imaging Processing IP pack is priced at $3,000 and will be available at the end of April. Xilinx also rolled out the SMPTE2022 IP [...]
LatticeXP2 HiSPi to Parallel Sensor Bridge Reference Design
Lattice Semiconductor introduced a HiSPi bridge reference design that supports Aptina’s High-Speed Serial Pixel Interface. The reference design is based on LatticeXP2 FPGA devices, which can support four HiSPi data lanes up to 700Mpbs. The HiSPi bridge solution enables an Image Signal Processor (ISP) with a CMOS parallel bus to interface with an Aptina HiSPi [...]
Xilinx Virtex-6 HXT FPGA Optical Transport Network Design Platform
Xilinx introduced the Virtex-6 HXT FPGA Optical Transport Network (OTN) Targeted Design Platform. The OTN Targeted Design Platform features a Virtex-6 HXT FPGA development board with pre-defined and implemented reference designs for different OTN solutions, such as 100G ODU switching from Xilinx, 100G Ethernet to OTU4 transponders and 10×10 to OTU4 transponders. The OTN platform [...]
Lattice HDR-60 Video Camera Development Kit
Lattice Semiconductor launched their HDR-60 Video Camera Development Kit, which is a production-ready High Definition (HD) video camera development system based on the LatticeECP3 FPGA family. The HDR-60 kit helps camera manufacturers jump start their FPGA-based high definition camera programs. The kit features Aptina 720p HDR sensor, on-board DDR2 memory, two USB ports, RJ45 Ethernet [...]
Xilinx PROFINET, Motor Control, GigE Vision Targeted Design Platforms
Xilinx introduced three new industrial Targeted Design Platforms: (1) PROFINET, (2) Motor Control, and (3) GigE Vision. The new platforms are based on the low-cost Spartan-6 FPGA family. The design platforms help engineers increase performance and reduce time to market for PROFINET real time networking, advanced motor control, and GigE Vision industrial imaging applications. The [...]
GCC C-Compiler and Linker Support LatticeMico8 Microcontroller
Lattice Semiconductor and Beyond Semiconductor teamed together on the LatticeMico8 development tools. The GNU software development tools include a LatticeMico8 port of version 4.4.3 of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and version 2.18 of GNU Binary Utilities (binutils – assembler, linker, etc). The tool suite for the LatticeMico8 soft processor is available now.
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