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News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 22 August 2001
OmniVision and TI in camera
collaboration
OmniVision Technologies and Texas Instruments are aiming to make it easier for OEMs to develop affordable high-performance 1394 CMOS cameras.
OmniVision Technologies and Texas Instruments are aiming to make it easier for OEMs to develop affordable high-performance 1394 CMOS cameras Their joint reference design will be based on OmniVision's CMOS image sensor and TI's Camera Link and Phy chips
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The combined reference design will benefit camera manufacturers by easing the design process, cutting costs and enabling them to speed their time to market.
The solution also provides high quality CMOS video and offers lower power consumption than current CCD based cameras.
"We identified OmniVision as a key player in the expansion of the high-performance 1394 camera market", said Dan Harmon, Marketing Manager, Worldwide Connectivity Solutions Peripherals, TI.
"TI's leading 1394 technology is a great match with OmniVision's leading CMOS image sensor technology".
The reference design will combine Texas Instrument's TSB15LV01PFC Camera Link chip plus Phy (TSB41ABx) with OmniVision's OV76xx CMOS image sensor.
The solution will also include software drivers to enable a complete camera solution.
"We are very excited to work with Texas Instrument to provide this 1394 camera solution.
We believe this is going to be a new segment of camera business for us which has big growth potential".
said Raymond Wu, Executive Vice President, OmniVision Technologies.
"We continue to be a leader in the delivery of high-performance, low-cost camera solutions to the general public, and our complete reference design enables rapid design cycles and minimum time-to-market for our OEM customers".
Targeted availability for reference designs for OEMs is fourth quarter of 2001.
Under the arrangement, both companies will offer the reference design and comarket and support OEMs that integrate the reference design into their product offerings.
In OEM quantities, the complete 1394 with camera chipsets is priced below $20.00.
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