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News Release from: DxO Labs | Subject: DxO IPE, DxO ISP and DxO DOP
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 29 November 2007
Silicon IP upgrades handset image
processing
Embedded image processing solutions are specifically designed for camera phone applications and available as silicon IP licensed to silicon vendors.
DxO Labs has released three new embedded image processing solutions specifically designed for camera phone applications and available as silicon IP licensed to silicon vendors These new solutions help mobile phone designers overcome the limitations of ever shrinking pixels used in high resolution, small form factor camera modules
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Feb 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The three new offerings are the DxO IPE, DxO ISP and DxO DOP families of solutions.
The DxO IPE family of solutions combines the newest digital optics technology which supports low light lens designs, enhanced depth-of-field designs and low profile lens designs with DSC-class image signal processing for the best overall low light imaging performance available.
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The DxO ISP family provides DSC-class image processing without the digital optics implementation; and the DxO DOP family provides the digital optics processing without the image processing functions.
All of the solutions are implemented using DxO's proprietary, highly configurable and programmable SIMD processor core and are extremely power, space and form factor efficient.
Due to the flexibility of the architecture, the solutions are available in several configurations to support resolution from 1.3 to 12Mpixel.
The solutions are available to be embedded on CMOS imaging sensor chips, on companion chips inside camera modules, or on baseband or application processor chips.
"Despite the performance limitations of today's ever shrinking pixels, we believe that with the application of DxO imaging technologies in embedded platforms such as camera phones, image quality equivalent to that of digital still cameras can be achieved", says Jerome Meniere, CEO of DxO Labs.
"Through our investment in building RTL and silicon design capabilities within DxO, we are now able to offer these technologies to customers seeking to embed them in CMOS image sensors, multimedia processors and other SoCs in a complete, proven RTL solution for easy integration and rapid time to market".
With the purchase of a licence and royalty contract, DxO Labs will deliver the following: a system level, bit-accurate C model for the RTL and microcode; a hardware integration guide including external interfaces (hardware I/F, timing, registers and memories); configured RTL (obfuscated structural Verilog) with 100% coverage; verification coverage and guidelines (including documentation, verification vectors and tools for integration); recommended chip test methodology; a software integration guide including microcontroller firmware and library description; microcontroller firmware and library; one lens design which when mated to the system hardware meets the optical system specifications (for DxO DOP and DxO IPE families only); and support for chip specification, RTL integration and verification, firmware integration and verification, chip backend, system level verification, lens sample manufacturing and verification, chip verification and image quality tuning.
On receipt of first samples, DxO Labs will also performance a lens and sensor system calibration.
This calibration testing results in the creation of additional binaries (codes and data) for ROM or RAM integration for the final camera module using the mated lens.
The solutions are available for immediate integration into customer chip designs.
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