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SiliconBlue launches a Custom Mobile Device 'Los Angeles'

By SiliconIndia | Sunday, 10 July 2011, 23:17 Hrs

SiliconBlue launches a Custom Mobile Device 'Los Angeles'

Santa Clara: California-based SiliconBlue Technologies, provider of Custom Mobile Device solutions for handheld applications, announced its availability and fully functioning samples of the new iCE40 'Los Angeles' mobile FPGA family including the LP-Series (Low-Power) and the HX-Series (High-Speed) families targeting smartphones and tablets, respectively. Fabricated on TSMC 40-nm low-power standard CMOS process, the new LP and HX families provide twice the logic capacity of previous 65-nm devices.

Founded in 2006 by Kapil Shankar, the company is headquartered in Santa Clara and currently employees more than 70 people worldwide. They have more than 40 patents in their portfolio with key partnership with TSMC, ASE and Synopsys. The investors in the company are BlueRun Ventures, Crosslink Capital, NEA, Apex Venture Partners and TSMC. They offer a total solution for handset applications, including IP, design services and a new class of ultra-low power, single-chip, CMOS SRAM mobileFPGA devices with patended non-volatile configuaratin memory (NVCM). Headquartered in Santa Clara, they have offices in China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan.

"We have proven our technology leadership with iCE65 and are on track to ship approximately ten million units this year. We are taking our next step with Los Angeles CMDs by extending our video performance capability for smartphones to 525 Mbps, enabling HD720p 60Hz and HD 1080p 30Hz. For tablets, CMDs can now support WUXGA with dual LVDS, HS720p 60Hz and HD1080p 30HZ," said Kapil Shankar, CEO of SiliconBlue.

Featuring ultra low-power and ultra small footprints, the Los Angeles LP-Series CMD is the ideal application processor companion chip solution for smartphone applications providing support for sensor management, high-speed custom connectivity and convergence of HD video and imaging.

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