Pico’s: Why Our Dual Output ArcticLink III VX6 Matters
Whether in our earnings calls, or here on HotSpots, we’ve talked a lot about pico projectors in the last few months. Well…as much as we’ve only recently externally talked about them, they’ve been a hot...
View ArticleOne More For the Road…
…so I may have been a bit premature when I said it was the last blog of 2011 in my last entry… Before the break, I wanted to quickly give our readers a summarized list of questions we’ve gotten...
View ArticleOn BCC…
Sorry for being late with this blog, especially for those interested and keeping track… We announced BCC, or Background Color Compensator, last week. This technology enables OEMs of pico projectors to...
View ArticleSmartphone ‘Injustices’
www.gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com/technology/technolog/7-worst-smartphone-injustices-how-fight-them-523772 Read this article yesterday, and was pleasantly surprised to see battery life as the top ‘injustice’...
View ArticleOn MHL and HDMI: How Do VEE and DPO Fit?
QuickLogic’s new ArcticLink III VX devices, revealed last December, features LVDS, MIPI, and RGB interfaces. Combined with our legacy ArcticLink II VX products with MDDI and RGB, we think we’ve got...
View ArticleWhy an OEM Would Use a Bridge Chip (and Why They Wouldn’t)
Upon seeing the ArcticLink III VX RGB->LVDS demo at the recent Linley conference, a very astute attendee asked me ‘why do some OEMs use bridge chips and some don’t?’ This was a very good question,...
View ArticleDisplay Resolutions…
A hot topic in the consumer device world, post iPad 3 (err…new iPad…which begs the question of what the next one will be called…newer iPad?) is where displays are going, resolution-wise. There are too...
View ArticleHow the ArcticLink III VX MIPI2 to MIPI4 Enables Lower-cost 720p Displays
Of the 13 different silicon variants of the ArcticLink III VX devices, the one that gets the most questions is the VX3B2F, or the MIPI 2-lane to MIPI 4-lane bridge with VEE and DPO. In particular, we...
View ArticleOn the ArcticLink III for Cameras…
Today’s blog deals with an adjacent market for the ArcticLink III (AL III), digital cameras, and specifically the embedded display. As I start, I should be clear and say that we are not talking about...
View ArticleOn the Snapdragon…
Welcome back to QuickLogic HotSpot. QuickLogic announced today that we now have a daughter card available that connects to the DragonBoard (based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Processors). Our card accepts...
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