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About Us
Founded in 1997, Digital Blocks architects, designs, verifies, and markets semiconductor IP cores
to worldwide technology systems companies. Digital Blocks market planning & architecture phases
incorporates the system level view of how the IP core functions, based on many years of system
level design.
Our mission is to provide customers with pre-verified VHDL / Verilog soft IP cores that reduce
customer development costs and accelerate product time-to-volume goals.
Digital Blocks adheres to industry standard processes as well as internally developed processes
that guide our IP Core market definition, RTL micro-architecture design, VHDL / Verilog RTL
design, and verification activities.
Digital Blocks' organization comprises of the following Product Development & Support Groups:
Digital Blocks offers the DB9100 and DB9200 family of graphics rendering IP Cores.
The DB9100 hardware accelerates BitBLT (Bit Block Transfer Generation &
Move) and color font expansion while the DB9200 adds 2D geometric (e.g. lines, circles)
rendering. Both IP Cores are offered in a high-performance and a lower performance,
lower cost versions. Complementing the DB9000 TFT LCD Controller, both the
DB9100 BitBLT & text color expansion and DB9200 2D geometry graphics hardware
accelerators are offered with AMBA AXI, AXI4, AHB, and Qsys / Avalon bus fabric
interfaces.
Located in Glen Rock, New Jersey, Digital Blocks is located within the Eastern U.S. high-
technology corridor.
to worldwide technology systems companies. Digital Blocks market planning & architecture phases
incorporates the system level view of how the IP core functions, based on many years of system
level design.
Our mission is to provide customers with pre-verified VHDL / Verilog soft IP cores that reduce
customer development costs and accelerate product time-to-volume goals.
Digital Blocks adheres to industry standard processes as well as internally developed processes
that guide our IP Core market definition, RTL micro-architecture design, VHDL / Verilog RTL
design, and verification activities.
Digital Blocks' organization comprises of the following Product Development & Support Groups:
- Processor & Peripherals Group - With architect, design, & validation engineering from
Bay Area Silicon Valley and Eastern US computer companies, Digital Blocks offers the
DB8051C Microcontroller & Peripherals for embedded system design engineers.
- Building on our early processor design expertise with space-borne computers and continuing
with our central processor & I/O controller design for mid-range computers, Digital Blocks
offers the DB8051C Verilog IP Core with a high speed/power ratio in a low VLSI
footprint. The DB8051C is an industry standard 8051 / 8052 Instruction Set Architecture
(ISA) Microcontroller. The DB8051C targets standard-cell ASIC and FPGA devices with
embedded microcontroller requirements.
- Digital Blocks offers the 82xx family of peripherals, as well as an expanding line of IP Cores
for the AMBA on-chip buses - including APB / AHB / AXI fabrics.
- Digital Blocks' design services maintains a lab whereby the DB8051C Microcontroller --
along with Xilinx's MicroBlaze & PowerPC, Altera's NIOS-II, and ARM's Cortex
microprocessors -- are developed within embedded ASIC & FPGA designs.
- Display & Graphics Controller Group - Digital Blocks offers the DB9000 family of
feature-rich, cost-effective display controller IP Cores for leading technology companies
requiring TFT LCD panels in their product. The Display Controller Group maintains a
Display Labs whereby the DB9000 family of TFT LCD Controllers are tested with various
microprocessors, bus interfaces to frame buffer memory, and different LCD panel
manufacturers and resolutions.
Digital Blocks offers the DB9100 and DB9200 family of graphics rendering IP Cores.
The DB9100 hardware accelerates BitBLT (Bit Block Transfer Generation &
Move) and color font expansion while the DB9200 adds 2D geometric (e.g. lines, circles)
rendering. Both IP Cores are offered in a high-performance and a lower performance,
lower cost versions. Complementing the DB9000 TFT LCD Controller, both the
DB9100 BitBLT & text color expansion and DB9200 2D geometry graphics hardware
accelerators are offered with AMBA AXI, AXI4, AHB, and Qsys / Avalon bus fabric
interfaces.
- Video Signal & Image Processing Group - Digital Blocks offers the following video
signal & image processing IP Cores for embedded video applications.
- DB1800 - Standard Definition NTSC/PAL/SECAM Video Sync Separator
- DB1810 - Color Space Converter
- DB1820 - Chroma Resampler
- DB1825 - RGB to YCrCb Color Space Converter with 4:4:4 to 4:2:2 Chroma
Resampler - DB1830 - BT.656 Encoder
- DB1840 - BT.656 Decoder
- DB1892 - RGB to CCIR601/656 Encoder
- Design Services Group - Digital Blocks offers customers design services associated with
our IP Cores. We offer turnkey Printed Circuit Board design, FPGA design utilizing all
leading FPGA technologies, ASIC/ASSP design, and associated software development.
Located in Glen Rock, New Jersey, Digital Blocks is located within the Eastern U.S. high-
technology corridor.
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The following is a representative list of our Global Customers:
- Ascom Autelc AG ASIC Bank Co., Ltd.
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation Elisra Electronic Systems Ltd.
FirstPass, Inc. General Electric Company
Heildelberger Drckmanschiner AG Hitachi
IFR Lockheed Martin Corporation
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. NDT Systems, Inc.
Nihon Densan Tosok Nokia Corporation
Nortel Networks Corporation Orbital Sciences Corporation
Raytheon Company Rockwell Collins Inc.
STMircoelectronics N.V. Siemens AG
Zoran Corporation Toshiba
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