Northwest Logic Celebrates its 20th Anniversary
Northwest Logic was started in November of 1995 in the garage of one of the founding partners with an initial focus on providing FPGA-based design services. Over the years, we have grown into a provider of high-performance, high-quality IP Cores with a world-wide set of industry-leading customers. We want to thank all of our customers, partners, vendors and employees who been part of this journey. We look forward to continuing to work with you for another 20 years!
Thanks again, the Northwest Logic Team
Northwest Logic’s Memory Solution for 14nm Customers of Intel Custom Foundry
Northwest Logic’s DDR4/3 Controller Cores have been fully integrated and validated with Intel Custom Foundry’s DDR4/3 PHY. This complete solution is fully silicon-proven in a 14nm testchip. “With the successful integration of Northwest Logic’s DDR controller and Intel Custom Foundry’s DDR PHY IP, we now offer comprehensive DDR support to our customers”, said Tony Pialis, Director of Analog Mixed-Signal IP of Intel Custom Foundry. “Our customers can leverage the robust and silicon-ready IO solutions offered by Intel Custom Foundry and Northwest Logic.” Northwest Logic is one of the Intel Custom Foundry Eco-system partners. For more information, contact Northwest Logic or Intel.
CSI-2 Controller with C-PHY Support Released
Northwest Logic has released its CSI-2 Controller with full support of the MIPI C-PHY standard. The C-PHY uses 3-phase symbol encoding to carry data over 3 pins per lane (also known as trios). The C-PHY can support up to 3 trios at rates up to 2.5 Gsym/s for a peak bandwidth of 17.1 Gbit/s. This utilizes the same number of pins as a four lane D-PHY running at 2.5 Gbit/s/lane, but can carry 70% more data. The Northwest Logic CSI-2 Controller can support C-PHY, D-PHY and combo C/D-PHY. For this release, Northwest Logic delivered the controller integrated and verified with a combo C/D-PHY from Mixel. For more information, contact Northwest Logic.
Complete, Silicon-Proven PCI Express Solution
Northwest Logic provides a complete, silicon-proven, easy-to-use PCI Express solution for use in ASICs, Structured ASICs and FPGAs. The PCI Express and DMA IP cores have been used in a variety of designs including networking, storage, and military applications and on advanced process nodes including 16, 20, and 28 nm. For more information on this solution, please visit: www.nwlogic.com
DINI Group uses Northwest Logic’s PCI Express Solution to bring-up its ASIC Prototyping Platforms
DINI Group continues to use Northwest Logic’s PCI Express solution to bring up its ASIC prototyping platforms. The Kintex Ultrascale ASIC prototyping platform is one of their latest offerings. Visit DINI Group to see their complete selection of boards. “We have had very positive experience using Northwest’s IPs and we continue to use them for our ASIC board bring-up. We have been working with Northwest Logic for close to a decade now. They are our first choice for PCIe and memory interface IP,” said Mike Dini, President of DINI group. “DINI Group’s ASIC prototyping platforms, in combination with Northwest Logic’s silicon-proven PCI Express Cores, enable large PCIe-based designs to be quickly prototyped.”
MIPI D-PHY FPGA Prototyping Support from S2C
S2C’s MIPI D-PHY Interface Module provides both 4 channel MIPI D-PHY Rx and 4 channel MIPI D-PHY Tx support using the Meticom MC20901 Rx and MC20902 Tx chips. The list price of S2C Meticom MIPI D-PHY Interface Module (part number: P-MIPIPHYIB) is $400.00. Contact S2C for details.
Altia Systems Selects Northwest Logic’s MIPI Solution for its PanaCast 2 Video Camera
PanaCast 2 is the world’s first Panoramic-4K Plug-and-Play USB real time video camera that connects directly to your PC or Mac. It delivers a 180º wide by 54º tall panoramic video stream (3840X1080) and high fidelity stereo audio. “We use the Northwest Logic CSI-2 Rx Controller Core to bring MIPI data into the Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA inside our PanaCast 2 camera” said Yashket Gupta, Lead Engineer, Hardware Design. Adding, “We found the core easy to work with and support is top notch”. Please click here for more info in PanaCast 2. Please click here for more info on Northwest Logic MIPI Solutions.