Aaron Bhman, Head of Broadcast and Professional A/V Business at Xilinx, stated, "MIPI DSI and CSI-2 have now established themselves as the preferred standards for connecting low-cost display, camera, and video application processors to Xilinx® 7 Series and Spartan® 6 FPGAs," adding, "As a result, FPGAs are being widely adopted in MIPI-based products, particularly those supporting 4K2K and beyond."

Northwest Logic supplies the full range of DSI (Host and Peripheral) and CSI-2 (Tx & Rx) controller cores. All of Northwest Logic's cores support 1–4 lane and 8 lane (dual 4 lane) MIPI operation. The cores are supplied fully integrated with PHY logic and implement Xilinx's low-cost MIPI interface technology. Brian Daellenbach, CEO of Northwest Logic, stated, "Xilinx's low-cost MIPI interface method enables a completely new level of FPGA-based MIPI products," adding, "Northwest Logic's MIPI cores supporting this technology have undergone hardware verification."

Zylon supplies a wide range of video processing IP cores. Zylon implements a complete demo system by integrating the Xilinx FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC), which enables an affordable MIPI interface, Northwest Logic's CSI-2 and DSI cores, and Zylon's cores into standard Zynq® All Programmable SoC evaluation boards (ZC702 & ZC706). This demo system receives a real-time video stream from an OmniVision CMOS sensor (OV16820), processes it on a Xilinx FPGA, and then streams it back to a MIPI-compatible display. "This demo system demonstrates that using this interface method and logiBRICKS allows for cost competitiveness and the rapid development of highly reliable FPGA-based MIPI systems," said Zyron CEO Davor Kovacec.

The newly released Xilinx MIPI D-PHY solution application note (XAPP894) is available at http://www.xilinx.com/support/index.htm, and the Xilinx MIPI demo system video is available at http://youtu.be/oq69AQkUWbU.