ArcticLink Programmable Solution Platform for Mobile Devices - QuickLogic

QuickLogic released the ArcticLink solution platform. ArcticLink is a programmable solution platform specifically designed to meet the unique connectivity requirements of handheld devices such as mobile phones, PDA, personal media players, GPS, portable industrial products, and ExpressCard peripherals for handheld computing.

QuickLogic’s ArcticLink Chip

ArcticLink reduces development time for the mobile devices market by embedding high performance host controllers, a programmable fabric for implementing additional controllers, peripheral connectivity and also a selectable processor interface.

The ArcticLink Programmable Solution Platform meets integrates wide variety of wireless, image/video and storage technology. The hardwired interfaces in the ArcticLink solution platform include a USB 2.0 High Speed On-the-Go (OTG) controller with integrated PHY and a SD/SDIO/MMC/CE-ATA host controller. The USB 2.0 OTG controller supports the maximum USB speed of up to 480Mbps and can be configured as either a host or a device (OTG). The SD/SDIO/MMC/CE-ATA controller provides a SD card 2.0, SDIO host 2.0, MMC 4.1, or CE-ATA 1.10 compliant peripheral interface at speeds of up to 52MHz. Other functions, such as PCI, IDE, NAND flash controller, additional SDIO host controllers, SPI, Bluetooth 2.0 UART, display controllers and other custom interfaces, can be implemented in the programmable fabric.

ArcticLink Application Scheme from PLDesignLine.Com

Key specs of ArcticLink Programmable Solution Platform for Mobile Devices (QL1A100):

• Built-in Interfaces:
  • Hi-Speed USB 2.0 On-The-Go (OTG) with PHY
  • SDIO 2.0 host controller for high-speed peripherals
  • SD 2.0 host controller for SD memory
  • MMC 4.1 for MMC memory
  • CE-ATA 1.10 for micro hard drive
• System : 100,000 gates
• Logic : 640 cells
• RAM size: 36,864 bits
• Clocks: 5
• I/O Standards: LVTTC, LVCMOS, LVCMOS18, PCI, SSTL2, SSTL3, SSTL18
• I/O Voltage 1.8, 2.5, 3.3
• Packaging
  • PMN121-8mm x 8mm 60
  • PTN196-12mm x 12mm 120

The ArcticLink Programmable Solution Platform for Mobile Devices, gives developers the ability to quickly harness a wide variety of technologies to their application processors without reducing CPU performance and utilization. The on-chip programmable fabric can be configured to interface to most application processors. An innovative internal split-bus architecture allows the host processor to establish sustained and concurrent data transfers between the various host controllers without further intervention. By freeing the processor from these cycle-intensive I/O processing tasks, the ArcticLink solution platform helps reduce bill of material costs and increase battery life by enabling designers to use lower speed grade, lower cost application processors.

About QuickLogic
QuickLogic Corporation is the provider of the lowest power programmable solutions for the portable electronics, industrial, communications and military markets. The latest products, ArcticLink Programmable Solution Platform for Mobile Devices, PolarPro , Eclipse II  and QuickPCI  are being used to implement bridge and control solutions in embedded systems requiring Wi-Fi, DVB-H and IDE or CE-ATA-based disk drives. QuickLogic's proprietary ViaLink  technology offers significant benefits for programmable logic, including the lowest power, instant on capability and bulletproof intellectual property security. The company is located at 1277 Orleans Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1138.

ArcticLink Programmable Solution Platform for Mobile Devices engineering samples is available in 8×8-mm 121-ball CTBGA and a 12×12-mm 196-ball TFBGA lead-free package. Production is scheduled on Q3 this year. The ArticLink solution platform will sell for less than $4 in high volume in 2008.

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