Video bridging solution promises new level of design flexibility and innovation

Ask embedded video system designers to describe some of the more intractable challenges they face and many will cite the rapidly evolving I/O landscape. Dramatic advances in mobile application processors, the rapid proliferation of low cost image sensors and displays, and the widespread adoption of MIPI standard interfaces have revolutionized embedded system design over the past few years. Today these mobile platforms lie at the heart of new innovations not only in smartphones and tablets, but also DSLR cameras, drones, virtual reality (VR) systems, medical tools and industrial displays. Ideally each device in a system would interface directly to the applications processor, but in today’s emerging video markets that is not always the case. Often the interface type or number of interfaces on the applications processor does not match those on the system’s image sensors or displays.