ArcticLink II VX Solution Platform Family
Programmable Visual Enhancement Solution Platform
Powered with DPO, VEE and High Speed Serial Display Technology, ArcticLink II VX Solution Platform Family brings TV-quality Visual Experience to your mobile device.
QuickLogic Corporation partners with Apical Limited to bring QuickLogic's Visual Enhancement Engine technology (VEE™) to the mobile world. The ArcticLink Solution Platform family integrates the 2nd generation Visual Enhancement Engine (VEE), Display Power Optimizer (DPO), Framebuffer, MDDI, MIPI DSI controller, and programmable fabric. This highly integrated, yet flexible platform makes it the ideal solution for display and connectivity subsystems of handheld portable devices.
- VEE v2.0 enables sunlight viewability through dynamic range control resulting in TV-quality visual experience
- DPO significantly reduces display power consumption through intelligent control of backlight brightness
- MDDI v1.2 Type 2 Client MIPI DSI, RGB, or CPU Bus
- Up to 32 Mbits of embedded frame buffer using very lower power Cellular RAM technology
VEE and DPO Architecture
Programmable Fabric Architecture
The ArcticLink® II VX solution platform also includes an ultra low power programmable fabric based on QuickLogic’s proprietary ViaLink® technology. As more mobile designs are adopting a platform design methodology, the flexibility of the programmable fabric becomes key to adapting to market requirements quickly and to truly accelerate time-to-market. The programmable fabric enables flexible configurations for different processors, LCDs and usage cases. It can be used to implement additional visual enhancement functions such as alpha blending, and connectivity solutions such as UART, SPI and SDIO interfaces.
Display Enhancement Technologies — DPO & VEE
Displays typically consume 30-60% of the total system power. A common method, such as Content Adaptive Backlight Control (CABC), reduces backlight or brightness levels to save power. However, CABC significantly diminishes the viewing experience of content details, particularly in darker content. Furthermore, CABC typically only saves a small fraction of display power— on the order of 10%.
QuickLogic’s approach using DPO and VEE is a radical advancement from primitive CABC technology. QuickLogic takes the idea of being content aware two further steps by evaluating the value of each individual pixel and the statistics of all the nearby pixels. VEE then uses that information to adjust the value of the individual pixels, while DPO uses that to adjust the backlight. The ability to provide a unique tone curve for each pixel, as well as have tight control over the display backlight, gives greater flexibility than the global adjustment performed by CABC, which results is greater power savings and the entirely new capability of adapting to a bright environment.
DPO also seamlessly integrates with QuickLogic’s Visual Enhancement Engine (VEE), ensuring both longer battery life and an excellent visual experience by coupling the Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) driving the display backlight with the display content processing parameters of the VEE technology.
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| Mobile processor with an RGB or CPU Bus display output | Mobile processor with an RGB display output and a MIPI-enabled mobile display | Qualcomm’s latest Mobile Station Modem (MSM™) MSM7xxx-series and MSM8xxx-series mobile processors, including the recently announced Snapdragon family |
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