Business Wire: Santa Clara, CA-based startup SiliconBlue announced sampling of iCE40 “Los Angeles” mobileFPGA family targeting mobile and tablet HD video and imaging. The new FPGA devices have capacity in range from 640 to 16K logic
gates cells.
One can ask what kind of image processing is possible with so few gates? As written in comments, there are Kcells, not gates.
The product brief gives few suggestions: video scaling, color space conversion, parallel to serial conversion, image rotation.
The FPGAs are made in TSMC 40nm standard CMOS process and said to be the industry’s first packaged in 2.5 x 2.5mm micro plastic BGA.
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We are proud to announce we’ve taken the next bold step with Los Angeles CMDs by extending our video performance capability for smartphones to 525 Mbps, enabling HD720p 60Hz (1280 x 720) and HD1080p 30Hz (1920 x 1080)," said Kapil Shankar, CEO of SiliconBlue
