2014

Mixel Further Expands its Market Share in the MIPI IP Market

San Jose, CA – September 29, 2014 – Mixel^®, the leader in mobile mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), announced today that Kopin^® Corporation (NASDAQ: KOPN), a leading developer of innovative wearable computing technologies and solutions, has successfully incorporated Mixel’s complete MIPI® solution into its recently announced A914 product. This solution includes Mixel’s high-performance, low-power Rx D-PHY ^SM and Northwest Logic’s full-featured, small-size CSI-2 Rx Controller Core. Northwest Logic is an active participant in Mixel’s MIPI Central Ecosystem Partnership Program, which brings together best-of-class MIPI ecosystem stakeholders.

“As we push the envelope with our state-of-the-art products in a market segment that is rapidly evolving, we have selected a MIPI IP provider that could enable us to achieve the first-time silicon success,” said Dr. Hong Choi, Kopin’s Chief Technology Officer. “Minimizing power and area are of paramount importance in our products. The Mixel team delivered the IPs under a tight schedule and provided us with outstanding product and customer support.”

“We are delighted to see that Mixel MIPI IPs are being integrated into exciting new products such as Kopin’s wearable line of products,” said Ashraf Takla, Mixel’s President and CEO. “It is particularly fulfilling to see Mixel gaining market share in the MIPI IP market as that market continues to grow rapidly.”

“Collaborating with Mixel to provide a market-leading, complete MIPI solution including Rx D-PHY ^SM Rx and CSI-2 Rx Controller Core is a win for us all,” said Brian Daellenbach, President of Northwest Logic. “We are excited to be part of Kopin’s wearable technology application.”

Mixel will be demonstrating many of its own, as well as its customers’ products, at the TSMC 2014 Open Innovation Platform^® Ecosystem Forum, September 30^th, San Jose Convention Center, and the MIPI Alliance face-to-face all-member meeting in Shanghai, October 7^th – 10^th.

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About Mixel^®:
Mixel is the leader in mixed-signal mobile IPs and offers a wide portfolio of high-performance mixed-signal connectivity IP solutions. Mixel’s mixed-signal portfolio includes PHYs and SerDes, such as Mobile PHYs (MIPI^® D-PHY ^SM, M-PHY^®, and LVDS), general purpose Transceivers, and high-performance PLL and DLL IP cores. For more information contact Mixel at info@mixel.com or visit www.mixel.com.

About Northwest Logic
Northwest Logic, founded in 1995 and located in Beaverton, Oregon, provides high-performance, silicon-proven, easy-to-use IP cores including high-performance Memory Interface Solution (DDR4/3/2, LPDDR3/2/1, RLDRAM 3/II), Expresso Solution (PCI Express 3.0/2.1/1.1 cores and drivers including DMA support), and MIPI Solutions (CSI-2, DSI).  These solutions support a full range of platforms including ASICs, Structured ASICs and FPGAs. For additional information, visit www.nwlogic.com or contact info@nwlogic.com.

About Kopin:
Kopin Corporation is a leading developer and provider of innovative wearable technologies and modules for the head-worn computing and display systems built by OEM customers. Kopin’s technology portfolio includes ultra-small displays, optics, speech enhancement technology, system and hands-free control software, low-power ASICs, and ergonomically designed smart headset reference systems. Kopin’s proprietary components and technology are protected by more than 200 global patents and patents pending. For more information, please visit Kopin’s website at http://www.kopin.com.

About The MIPI Alliance
MIPI Alliance (MIPI) develops interface specifications for mobile and mobile-influenced industries. Founded in 2003, the organization has more than 275 member companies worldwide, more than 15 active working groups, and has delivered more than 45 specifications within the mobile ecosystem in the last decade. Members of the organization include handset manufacturers, device OEMs, software providers, semiconductor companies, application processor developers, IP tool providers, test and test equipment companies, as well as camera, tablet and laptop manufacturers. For more information, please visit www.mipi.org.

Mixel^® and the Mixel logo are registered trademarks of Mixel, Inc.
Kopin and CyberDisplay are registered trademarks of Kopin Corporation.
MIPI^®, M-PHY^®, CSI^SM, D-PHY^SM are registered trademarks or service marks of MIPI Alliance, Inc.

Low cost MIPI Interface now available for users to design DSI and CSI-2 video interfaces for embedded systems

SAN JOSE, Calif., September 8, 2014 –Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) and Northwest Logic and Xylon, Xilinx Premier Alliance Members, announce the availability of a low cost Xilinx FPGA-based MIPI interface IP that is optimized for cost sensitive video displays and cameras.  The MIPI Display Serial Interface (DSI) and Camera Serial Interface 2 (CSI-2) have become the industry connectivity standards for low cost video displays and cameras across a wide variety of embedded systems.  Xilinx FPGAs can now be used to connect image sensors and ASSPs that support the CSI-2 and DSI standards for the development of high bandwidth applications supporting 4K2K and beyond.  The release of the support for MIPI furthers Xilinx’s Smarter Vision commitment by now enabling advanced real-time analytics and immersive display applications.

“MIPI DSI and CSI-2 is now the preferred standard for connecting low cost displays, cameras and video-capable application processors to Xilinx^® 7 Series and Spartan^® 6 FPGAs,” said Aaron Behman, segment lead, broadcast and professional A/V business at Xilinx.  “As a result, FPGAs are being incorporated into more MIPI-based products today than ever before, especially in products that support 4K2K and beyond.”

Northwest Logic provides a full range of DSI (Host and Peripheral) and CSI-2 (Tx & Rx) Controller Cores.  These cores fully support 1-4 lane and 8 lane (dual 4 lane) MIPI operation.  The cores are delivered fully integrated with the PHY logic to implement Xilinx’s low cost MIPI Interface technique.  “The Xilinx low cost MIPI Interface approach will enable a whole new range of FPGA-based MIPI products.  The Northwest Logic MIPI cores that support this technique are fully hardware validated and released,” said Brian Daellenbach, president at Northwest Logic.

Xylon provides a broad range of video processing IP Cores.  Xylon has taken a Xilinx FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC), which implements the low cost MIPI Interface approach, Northwest Logic’s CSI-2 and DSI cores and its own cores running on an off-the-shelf Zynq^® All Programmable SoC evaluation board (ZC702 & ZC706) to create a comprehensive demonstration system.  The demonstration system takes a live video stream from an OmniVision CMOS sensor (OV16820), processes it in a Xilinx FPGA and then streams it to a MIPI-compatible display.  “This demo system shows that low cost, FPGA-based MIPI systems can be developed quickly and reliably using this interface approach and associated IP cores,” said Gordan Galic, technical marketing manager at Xylon.

The newly released Xilinx MIPI D-PHY Solutions Application Note (XAPP894) can be found at http://www.xilinx.com/support/index.htm.  A complete video on the Xilinx MIPI Demonstration System can be found at http://youtu.be/oq69AQkUWbU.

About Xilinx
Xilinx is the world’s leading provider of All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs and 3D ICs. These industry-leading devices are coupled with a next-generation design environment and IP to serve a broad range of customer needs, from programmable logic to programmable systems integration. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.

About Northwest Logic
Northwest Logic, founded in 1995 and located in Beaverton, Oregon, provides high-performance, silicon-proven, easy-to-use IP cores including high-performance Memory Interface Solution (DDR4/3/2, LPDDR3/2/1, RLDRAM 3/II), Expresso Solution (PCI Express 3.0/2.1/1.1 cores and drivers including DMA support), and MIPI Solution (CSI-2, DSI). These solutions support a full range of platforms including ASICs, Structured ASICs and FPGAs. For more information, visit www.nwlogic.com.

About Xylon
Xylon is an electronics company focused on FPGA designs. The company was founded in 1995, and since then it has grown into a prominent provider of intellectual property in the fields of embedded graphics, video and networking. For more information, visit www.logicbricks.com.

© Copyright 2014 Xilinx, Inc. Xilinx, the Xilinx logo, Artix, ISE, Kintex, Spartan, Virtex, Vivado, Zynq, and other designated brands included herein are trademarks of Xilinx in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Integrated IP block achieves both high-performance and efficiency; tested and validated system-level design provides superior signal integrity and reliability

SUNNYVALE, Calif. and BEAVERTON, Ore. – August 26, 2014 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) and Northwest Logic today announced they have validated interoperability of the Rambus R+™ DDR4/3 PHY with the Northwest Logic DDR4/3 SDRAM Controller Core. The combined solution provides customers with a differentiated memory subsystem that brings together the superior signal integrity offered by the Rambus R+ PHY along with the robust Northwest Logic controller core for a proven and easy-to-integrate solution.

“Given the industry’s ongoing demand for higher memory performance to manage greater amounts of data, this integrated solution provides customers with an easy way to integrate a tested and validated PHY/controller combination, ideal for networking, computing, and consumer applications requiring the best possible performance,” said Kevin Donnelly, general manager of the Memory and Interface division at Rambus. “We look forward to continuing our partnership with Northwest Logic and ongoing collaboration between our companies.”

“Our DDR4/3 SDRAM Controller Core has been successfully deployed in a wide variety of customer systems demonstrating high reliability and performance,” said Brian Daellenbach, president of Northwest Logic. “We are excited to offer a complete DDR4/3 solution with Rambus ensuring our customers achieve the best possible combined memory solution for their high data demands.”

The Rambus R+ DDR4/3 PHY enables customers to differentiate their offerings by providing industry-leading performance while maintaining full compatibility with industry-standard DDR4 and DDR3 interfaces. The R+ DDR4/3 PHY delivers versatile configuration options for both area- and power-optimized consumer applications and performance-intensive compute applications. The PHY is available in several low-power foundry processes and can be configured for both flip-chip and wire bond packages with data rates ranging from 800 to 3200Mbps.

The Northwest Logic DDR4/3 SDRAM Controller Cores are part of a family of silicon-proven, high-performance, easy-to-use memory controller cores that provide support for DDR4/3/2/1 LPDDR4/3/2/1, HBM, MRAM, RLDRAM 3/II. In addition, the Northwest Logic DDR4/3 SDRAM Controller Core provides high bus efficiency using request reordering, bank management and look-ahead processing. Northwest Logic also provides AXI/AHB bus interface, Error Correction Code (ECC), Read-Modify-Write and Multi-Port Front-End add-on cores to further simplify user designs. These cores support the highest memory clock rates, require minimal gate count and, as part of the solution, Northwest Logic offers a complete Memory Test Package for validation.

Northwest Logic has joined the Rambus Partner Program, which will enable further collaboration on other combined IP blocks offerings between the two companies. For additional information on the Rambus Partner Program, visit rambus.com/partners.

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About Rambus Inc.
Rambus brings invention to market. Our customizable IP cores, architecture licenses, tools, services, and training improve the competitive advantage of our customer’s products while accelerating their time-to-market. Rambus products and innovations capture, secure and move data. For more information, visit rambus.com.

About Northwest Logic
Northwest Logic, founded in 1995 and located in Beaverton, Oregon, provides high-performance, silicon-proven, easy-to-use IP cores including high-performance PCI Express solution (PCI Express 3.0, 2.1 and 1.1 cores and drivers), Memory Interface Solution (DDR4/3/2, LPDDR4/3/2 SDRAM; HBM, MRAM, RLDRAM 3/II), and MIPI Solution (CSI-2, DSI). These solutions support a full range of platforms including ASICs, Structured ASICs and FPGAs. For additional information, visit www.nwlogic.com.

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MSLGROUP
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Vinitha Seevaratnam
www.nwlogic.com
(503) 533-5800 x308

S2C boasts largest Prototype Ready™ interface library in the industry

BEAVERTON, Oregon and SAN JOSE, Calif. – August 18, 2014 – Northwest Logic and S2C, Inc. announced today that Northwest Logic’s PCI Express® (PCIe®) 3.0 solution, including the Expresso 3.0 Core (PCI Express 3.0 Controller Core) and family of DMA Cores has been validated on S2C’s ASIC prototyping platforms. These cores are now the latest addition to S2C’s Prototype Ready™ IP suite. This validation was done with 8 lanes running at 8 Gbit/sec SERDES rates. The joint validation effort ensures user’s confidence on integrating the high-speed PCIe IP into their SoC designs, shortening the project cycle.

“For systems that demand high speed communications, PCIe Gen3 is must-have technology,” said Toshio Nakama, Chief Executive Officer of S2C. “Partnering with Northwest Logic in the S2C Prototype Ready IP program provides customers immediate access to critical IP, pre-verified and running on a high-speed, high-capacity prototyping platform. Our Prototype Ready IP suite has over 70 pre-verified IP cores and daughter cards. With proven performance and a prototyping reference flow, IP integration is smooth allowing customers to accelerate their SoC design cycle. I am happy to have Northwest Logic’s participation.”

S2C’s unique FPGA-based solutions enable designers to quickly implement and debug their latest high-performance designs, as well as develop and refine system software. S2C’s TAI Logic Module family provides high-speed GTX ports, on-board DDR3 memory, and various interface daughter cards for users to easily verify high-performance interface IP such as PCIe, SATA, and USB.

Northwest Logic provides a complete PCI Express Solution. This solution includes Northwest Logic’s high-performance, easy-to-use, silicon-proven Expresso 3.0/2.1/1.1 Cores for PCI Express, DMA Back-End Core which provides high-performance scatter-gather DMA engines, Drivers (Linux & Windows) and Application software. Additionally, Northwest Logic offers high-performance Memory Controller and MIPI cores.

“We’re very pleased to be working with S2C,” said Brian Daellenbach, President, Northwest Logic. “Customers complete their development work quickly and with confidence by leveraging our high-performance and full-featured PCIe cores, combined with S2C’s off-the-shelf, high-quality prototyping platforms.”

About S2C
Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Jose, California, S2C provides rapid SoC prototyping solutions including:

• Rapid FPGA-based prototyping hardware and automation software
• Prototype Ready™ IP, interfaces and platforms
• System-level design verification and acceleration tools

S2C’s flexible, expandable and reusable hardware architecture combined with transaction-based links to system simulations make S2C’s solution an ideal common platform for major design phases from algorithm exploration, IP design, system integration to compatibility testing. S2C currently has offices or representatives in the US, Europe, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, and India. For more information, visit www.s2cinc.com.

About Northwest Logic
Northwest Logic, founded in 1995 and located in Beaverton, Oregon, provides high-performance, silicon-proven, easy-to-use IP cores including high-performance PCI Express solution (PCI Express 3.0, 2.1 and 1.1 cores and drivers), Memory Interface Solution (DDR4/3/2, LPDDR4/3/2 SDRAM; HBM, MRAM, RLDRAM 3/II), and MIPI Solution (CSI-2, DSI). These solutions support a full range of platforms including ASICs, Structured ASICs and FPGAs. For additional information, visit www.nwlogic.com.

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S2C, Inc.
Ron Green
www.s2cinc.com
(408) 213-8818

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Vinitha Seevaratnam
www.nwlogic.com
(503) 533-5800 x308

Newly optimized PHY supports 1.8V, 2.5V and 3.3V supplies on TSMC 28HPM

CAMARILLO, California., June 4, 2014 – Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, today announced the addition of a new PCI Express^® (PCIe^®) 3.0 PHY IP Platform offering, part of the Snowbush^® IP family, optimized for low power and low latency. Building on fourteen PCIe 3.0 specification successful customer product tape-outs at 40nm, and six PCIe 3.0 specification customers on TSMC 28nm process, this new offering provides customers with lowest power and lowest latency while meeting the reach requirements of compliance PCI Express channels. The PHY provides a differentiated choice of supplies (1.8V, 2.5V or 3.3V) to support legacy applications and ease of integration. The ultra-low power consumption for both normal and low power state modes combined with very low wake up latencies enable customers to reduce system power significantly. These features give customers the best IP choice when developing PCIe interfaces for the storage, server, and high performance computing markets.

Maintaining the lowest possible power in all operating modes, while maintaining the necessary reach, is of overriding concern when using PCI Express architecture in a server application.  Legacy channels can be very lossy and often require additional power consumption. Maintaining the power efficiency across different long and short reach channels is particularly challenging. The new PHY platform from Semtech can support both long reach and short reach channels, delivering compliant performance with the best in class power efficiency of under 7.5pJ/bit in 28nm. As the technology moves to 16 FinFET the power is expected to reduce by as much as 30%.

Storage applications require low-power across all operating modes and low-latency. Providing fast wake up time in the order of 10’s of nano-seconds is critical in storage applications. New enhancements to the L1 sub-state are added to reduce power when the PCI link is idle.

“Semtech’s continued investment into new product offerings helps enable the PCI Express ecosystem,” said Al Yanes, PCI-SIG® President and Chairman. “As a member of PCI-SIG, Semtech, produces PCIe 3.0 products that help ensure the continued success of the PCIe 3.0 architecture in the market.”

“Northwest Logic and our customers have had very positive experiences with the Snowbush IP. This latest Snowbush PCIe PHY further extends Semtech’s strong PHY offering, said Brian Daellenbach, President of Northwest Logic. “We fully support this PHY with our family of PCI Express Controllers and DMA Cores.”

“This new offering gives our customers IP that is differentiated by its performance, power, and stringent latency requirements,” said Kevin Walsh, Worldwide Marketing Director, Snowbush IP. “We expect that the 28nm process node will continue to be very active for server, storage, as well as in high end consumer, for some time to come. By providing robust, silicon proven PHY IP, with significant differentiation for these segments, customers gain both in confidence and in quantifiable performance.”

Pricing and Availability
The PCI Express PHY IP supporting 2.5V and 3.3V is available immediately. The 1.8V will be available in Q3. Pricing depends on configuration and the number of instantiations on in a design. Contact sales@snowbush.com for additional details.  Semtech offers comprehensive integration assistance, including field- and factory-based support associated with the purchase of this PHY IP. Information about the Snowbush IP family of products is available at >www.semtech.com/snowbush.

About Semtech
Semtech Corporation is a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors for high-end consumer, computing, communications and industrial equipment.  Products are designed to benefit the engineering community as well as the global community. The company is dedicated to reducing the impact it, and its products, have on the environment. Internal green programs seek to reduce waste through material and manufacturing control, use of green technology and designing for resource reduction. Publicly traded since 1967, Semtech is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol SMTC. For more information, visit www.semtech.com.

About Northwest Logic
Northwest Logic provides high-performance, silicon-proven, easy-to-use PCI Express 3.0/2.1/1.1 cores and DMA cores & drivers.  Northwest Logic and Semtech have collaborated to ensure that our mutual customers receive a fully integrated and validated Northwest Logic controller and Snowbush PHY solution. This solution has been used by many customers, all of which have been first time silicon successful.

About PCI-SIG
PCI-SIG is the consortium that owns and manages PCI specifications as open industry specifications. The organization defines I/O (input/output) specifications consistent with the needs of its members. Currently, PCI-SIG is comprised of nearly 800 industry-leading member companies. To join PCI-SIG, and for a list of the Board of Directors, visit www.pcisig.com.

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Semtech Corporation
(805) 389-2755
pcadena@semtech.com

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Santa Clara, Calif., May 6, 2014 – Achronix Semiconductor Corporation today announced that its 22nm Speedster22i devices have achieved PCI-SIG® compliance with the PCI Express® (PCIe®) 3.0 Specification for x8 lanes. The Speedster22i devices successfully passed the PCI-SIG Compliance and Interoperability Tests at the PCI-SIG workshop and are now included in the PCI-SIG integrators list. Based on Intel’s 22nm Tri-gate technology, Speedster22i devices are the only FPGAs shipping today that contain a wide range of embedded hard IP – including PCI Express Gen3 with integrated DMA Engine, DDR3, 100G Ethernet and Interlaken.

Hardening key interface IP in the Speedster22i devices frees up a substantial portion of the programmable logic fabric, increasing the effective capacity of the FPGA and reducing the overall power consumption. Additionally the embedded hard IP in Speedster22i HD FPGAs eliminates the cost of purchasing, integrating, closing timing and testing the functions that are required when soft IP is used. The PCI Express logic cores used in Speedster22i devices support Gen 1, 2 and 3 in x1, x4 and x8 configurations and are supplied by Northwest Logic. Speedster22i HD devices are the only FPGAs with an integrated DMA engine hardened as part of the PCI Express core. This provides additional cost, performance and power advantages vs. a soft implementation.

“We embedded the Northwest Logic PCI Express IP because it is an industry-leading, silicon-proven solution,” said Steve Mensor, Vice President of Marketing at Achronix. “Our customers require fully proven functional solutions and that’s what we are delivering with the embedded IP in our 22nm Speedster22i devices.”

“Our PCI Express IP has been successfully deployed in hundreds of applications in both hard and soft implementations,” said Brian Daellenbach, President, Northwest Logic. “We are excited to see our IP play a role in the Speedster22i success story.”

The Speedster22i HD1000 and HD680 devices are shipping today and have the following embedded hard IP: PCIe Gen3 x8 controllers, DDR 2/3 controllers, 10/40/100G Ethernet controllers and 12x10G Interlaken controllers. A video demonstration of the Speedster22i hardened PCI Express IP is available at http://www.achronix.com/products/videos/pci-express-demo.html.

About Achronix Semiconductor Corporation
Achronix is a privately held fabless corporation based in Santa Clara, California. Achronix builds application targeted field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) built on Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) process technology. Achronix ACE design tools include integrated support for Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) Synplify Pro. Achronix has sales offices and representatives in the United States, Europe, and China, and has a research and design office in Bangalore, India. Find out more at http://www.achronix.com.

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