Interface-oriented FPGAs enable MIPI, video bridging
Lattice’s is pursuing its declared intent to provide bridging solutions for consumer, industrial, and automotive applications; the company has optimized existing CrossLink IP to save logic resources and lower power consumption.
The CrossLink product was designed to address the challenges of a rapidly changing I/O landscape by offering designers a new way to develop high performance, low power and compact bridging solutions. Lattice says it has seen strong interest from customers to expand beyond typical early applications of the CrossLink product for simple interface conversion, merging and muxing of image sensors, application processors and displays.
By optimizing existing IP, applying IP and development platforms, along with additional resources, Lattice believes it can offer more solutions for a greater variety of bridging applications that combines the flexibility and fast time to market of an FPGA and the power and functional optimization of an ASSP.
“The new CrossLink IP and solutions will enable our customers to adopt cameras and displays with the latest mobile interface technology to reduce overall system cost, power and size, while accelerating the design cycle of their next-generation products,” said C.H. Chee, senior director of marketing, mobile & consumer division at Lattice Semiconductor.
The IP appearing in this release include;
– a one-input-to-one-output MIPI CSI-2 camera interface bridge that enables better connectivity and improved signal integrity over connectors, large PCBs and flex cabling. It also provides programmability for data packet repair or additional packet transmissions.
– a one-input-to-two-output MIPI CSI-2 camera splitter bridge that enables video data from a single image sensor to go to two sources.
– a 4:1 MIPI CSI-2 camera aggregator bridge that allows four CSI-2 cameras to be connected to a single CSI-2 interface on the processor. Two image sensors are merged together in a left/right format. A GPIO pin can then multiplex between the two sets of merged image sensors.
The technology demonstration platforms comprise;
– a CMOS to MIPI CSI-2 camera bridging demonstration that connects a popular image sensor with MIPI DPI CMOS-type pixel bus to the CSI-2 input on the application processor
– a MIPI DSI to LVDS display bridging demonstration that connects the applications processor to a Dual Link LVDS display
– a MIPI DSI to LVDS interface bridging demonstration that connects mobile application processors to large format LVDS displays, and that demonstrates the ability for industrial displays to interface to high volume, high performance mobile application processors.
Lattice Semiconductor; www.latticesemi.com/CrossLink
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