Overview
Beyond VGA Display Controller core provides VGA capabilities for embedded systems. It supports both CRT and LCD displays with user programmable resolutions and video timings, thus providing compatibility with almost all available LCD and CRT displays.
The core supports a number of color modes, including 32bpp, 24bpp, 16bpp, 8bpp grayscale, and 8bpp-pseudo color. The video memory is located outside the primary core, thus providing the most flexible memory solution possible. It can be located on-chip or off-chip, shared with the system’s main memory (VGA on demand) or be dedicated to the VGA system. Image data is fetched automatically via the WISHBONE Master interface, making this an ideal “program-and-forget” video solution. More demanding video applications, like streaming video or video games, can benefit from the video-bank-switching function. Flicker and cluttered images are reduced by automatically switching between video-memory pages and/or color lookup tables on each vertical retrace.
The horizontal, vertical, and composite synchronization polarization levels, as well as the blanking polarization level are programmable by software.
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Beyond Semiconductor today announced a strategic collaboration with Rubicon Labs. Developed over the past three years, the partnership combines Rubicon Labs’ cloud based device identity and security platform with Beyond Semiconductor’s processor and secure system-wide design competence to deliver security and identity for IoT, IIoT and data center ecosystems
NXP Semiconductors today unveiled the new BeyondStudioTM IDE for the JN516x range of wireless microcontrollers for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The comprehensive software development environment, developed by Beyond Semiconductor, dramatically simplifies the development of software on the JN516x family – improving code density, reducing development time and improving code quality.
Lauterbach TRACE32 software development tools now support the Beyond BA22 Family of microprocessor cores for deeply embedded system controllers through full application processors.
OmniVision Technologies licenses Beyond Semiconductor IP
InSilica Inc. announced that it has taken a license to use BA22 RISC Processor solution from Beyond Semiconductor in its next generation camera processors. The value to InSilica of Beyond Semiconductor's IP solution is to reduce power in its camera processor SoCs while reducing overall silicon area cost.
The Beyond line of products consists of 32 bit processor cores that can be configured to include a Memory Management Unit (MMU), an Instruction and Data Cache, a Power Management Unit, Timer and a Debug Unit. Advanced debug unit enables software developers to debug their software both in ROM and RAM, giving them total control of the processor and its peripherals.
