High-performance programmable logic devices manufacturer, Lattice Semiconductor, today announced that Ambarella selected the Lattice ECP5™ FPGA to enable MIPI bridging capabilities in systems using Ambarella CVflow® SoCs.
Lattice Semiconductor claimed that by Ambarella using the Lattice ECP5™ FPGA in its CVflow system, it will enable the users of the system to leverage the latest MIPI devices in their new and existing product designs while maintaining compatibility with other system components.
Long Xu, Director at Ambarella commented on why it chose Lattice Semiconductor by saying: “Selecting the best components for each of our products is essential to maintaining our industry leadership and ensuring that our users get the rich feature sets they need. We’re pleased to be working with Lattice to incorporate their low power FPGAs into our SoC platform, which further reinforces Ambarella as a preferred choice for advanced automotive and industrial solutions.”
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Lattice Semiconductor was founded in 1983 giving it decades of experience creating, deploying, and improving high-performance programmable logic devices that include its Lattice ECP5™ FPGA.
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The Lattice ECP5™ FPGA provider wrote in the press release that many automotive and industrial systems require support for legacy interface standards incompatible with MIPI.
Lattice Semiconductor explained that its Lattice ECP5™ FPGA provides users with the low power co-processing necessary to convert sub-LVDS and other interface standards supported by legacy components.
Kambiz Khalilian, Director for Strategic Business Development at Lattice Semiconductor commented on how its Lattice ECP5™ FPGA can help Ambarella customers by saying: “Lattice FPGAs and solutions stacks such as machine vision enable our customers and partners to quickly implement value-added embedded vision features like MIPI signal bridging and aggregation in their products. In addition to general-purpose FPGAs, Lattice also offers embedded vision optimised FPGAs such as CrossLink-NX, based on our low power Lattice Nexus platform, that includes support for hardened MIPI D-PHY interfaces needed in many industrial and automotive applications.”
Ambarella CVflow-based products are used in a wide variety of embedded and smart vision applications that include video security, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), electronic mirror, drive recorder, driver/cabin monitoring, autonomous driving, and robotics.
The Lattice ECP5™ FPGA providers noted that Ambarella chose the company and its solution based on its highly efficient routing architecture, low power consumption, and small form factor.
