Announcement of ECP5™ and CrossLink™ Programmable Devices for Automotive Product Line
Using mobile interfaces for automotive subsystems... reducing overall system cost, power, and size.

Lattice Semiconductor (Country Manager Jong-hwa Lee) announced the addition of ECP5™ and CrossLink™ programmable devices for interface bridging applications to its automotive product portfolio.

As products that clearly demonstrate Lattice’s efforts to support the automotive market, these two product families provide connectivity solutions optimized for ADAS and infotainment. By using these products, the gap between recent new image sensors and video display interfaces and existing automotive interfaces can be filled.

Rob Lineback, Senior Market Research Analyst at IC Insights, stated, “The CMOS image sensor market is expected to grow steadily over the next five years. Among CMOS image sensors, automotive systems will grow at the highest rate. Automotive systems are projected to reach $2.2 billion in 2020, growing at a CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 55 percent.” "This accounts for 14 percent of the total market size, which amounts to $15.2 billion," he said.

Automotive applications have undergone continuous innovation over the past few years due to the rapid advancement of mobile application processors, the development of low-cost image sensors and displays, and the widespread adoption of MIPI® standard interfaces. Ideally, all devices within a system should be able to interface directly with the application processor, but this is not always the case.

This problem has become more complex as the use of mobile platforms in automotive applications has increased. In such cases, this problem can be solved by using an interface bridging device. This enables support for a wide variety of existing video interfaces and protocols, such as CMOS, RGB, MIPI DPI, MIPI DBI, SubLVDS, SLVS, LVDS, and OpenLDI, as well as interfaces and protocols like MIPI D-PHY, MIPI CSI-2, and MIPI DSI.

Deepak Boppana, Marketing Director at Lattice Semiconductor, stated, “As consumer demand for ADAS and infotainment applications increases and technology evolves, the automotive industry is adding more cameras and sensors to vehicles. In this process, interface mismatches have arisen between the mobile image sensors, application processors, and embedded displays used in these applications.” “By using our company’s ECP5 and CrossLink devices, automotive customers can reduce overall system costs, power consumption, and size while adopting cameras and displays that utilize the latest mobile interface technologies, and shorten the time required to develop next-generation designs and launch products,” he said.