With the rise in popularity of adding MHL or HDMI interfaces to tablets and smartphones, already-overburdened system designs now face anothe
r challenge—how to integrate a secondary video output into a system designed to support only the on-board display?
In response to this, the new ArcticLink III VX6 solution platform by QuickLogic Corporation has recently been released.
This product integrates the company’s Visual Enhancement Engine (VEE) and Display Power Optimiser (DPO) technologies along with LVDS, MIPI, and RGB interfaces into a single chip bridging and connectivity solution for consumer mobile devices.
This is said to enable developers to easily integrate a secondary HDMI and/or MHL video output into systems initially designed to support a single, on-board display.
The company advises the VX6BxG is optimised for tablet architecture, offering system designers a solution that bridges the MIPI output of the AP to an LVDS interface for the on-board display, while outputting the same display content to the RGB or MIPI interface of the MHL/HDMI transmitter.
This approach is said to eliminate the need for inefficient, multi-chip architectures or the need to upgrade to a more expensive application processor which supports two simultaneous display interfaces.
The ArcticLink III VX6 family from QuickLogic allows tablet system designers to realise multi-display architectures with processors originally intended to support only a single, on-boarddisplay. We believe this flexibility in processor architecture selection can speed time-to-market and keep BOM costs low for OEMs building differentiated HDMI/MHL-enabled products” said Paul Karazuba, Senior Product Marketing Manager at QuickLogic.
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