Graphin Announces New GPirates Series Evaluation Suites for 4-Lane MIPI CSI-2 Compliance

TOKYO, December 1 - Graphin Co., Ltd., a rapidly emerging leader for evaluation suites for
image sensors, has announced that the GPLAB-CLSYS, the company's GPirates
series of evaluation systems for images from CMOS image sensors (CIS), is now
fully compliant with the four-lane MIPI CSI-2 standard.

With mobile phones currently equipped with a high-resolution camera
function of over 12 million pixels, manufacturers of image sensors and
image-sensing processors have begun trial production or are planning volume
production of three-lane or four-lane products based on the MIPI CSI-2
standard in anticipation of demand for more sophisticated camera functions
such as even higher resolutions, rapid shooting and high-definition image
capture with 1,080-line progressive scanning at 60 fps. Graphin, already
supplying products compliant with the two-lane MIPI CSI-2 standard, is now
ready to meet the market needs for products compliant with the three-lane and
four-lane versions.

The GPLAB-CLSYS is fitted with a proprietary capture board with a
four-lane PCI Express serial interface to constantly capture data at the
maximum speed of 3.2Gbps (800Mbps per lane) when connected to a four-lane
MIPI CSI-2 product. With the GPLAB-CLSYS, users can build a capture system
with broad bandwidth ranging from one to four MIPI lanes.

Graphin conducted demonstration tests with the Agilent 16900 series logic
analyzer from Agilent Technologies Inc., verifying the above performance with
one through three lanes of MIPI CSI-2 protocol data generated by the N4861A
MIPI D-PHY digital input signal probe.

Product outline:

The GPLAB-CLSYS comes with GPLAB-SKB4, a four-lane skull board compliant
with four-lane input, the GPLAB-ADB, an advanced board compliant with MIPI,
the GPLAB-CLC, an interface with a PC capture board, and the
IPM-8580CL-M-CLSYS, a PC capture board.

The EasyLab, a compact type of image-capturing software which comes as
part of the standard offering, allows users to capture images by just
following GUI-setting instructions. With an SDK also available, compatibility
towards API is ensured with the conventional products, permitting a smooth
shift of existing systems.

    Sales policy:
    ---Targeted market: R&D of mobile-phone image sensors, sales
       demonstration and shop-floor product inspection.
    ---Pricing: Open price
    ---Timing: Immediately available.

    About Graphin Co., Ltd.
    President: Tomoaki KUROSAWA
    Locations: 20-5, Minami-ooi 3-chome, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 1400013, JAPAN

    Contact:
      Yoshihiro Sugiyama
      Sales Department
      Graphin Co., Ltd.
      Phone: +81-3-5493-1211
      Fax: +81-3-5493-1212
      E-mail: sales@g-in.co.jp
      URL: www.g-in.co.jp/english/index.html

Yoshihiro Sugiyama, Sales Department of Graphin Co., Ltd. +81-3-5493-1211, Fax: +81-3-5493-1212, sales at g-in.co.jp