New Products Designed For PC Camera Applications
SUNNYVALE, CA — October 9, 2000 — OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OVTI), a leader in designing, developing and marketing advanced, single-chip CMOS image sensors used in electronic cameras and other optical imaging devices, today announced the newest addition to its color digital camera support family. The OV518+, an enhanced single-chip camera-to-universal serial bus (USB) bridge, is designed for high-resolution USB PC applications. This latest offering, which includes an audio interface, underscores the company’s commitment to provide complete solutions for its digital camera products. The OV518+ works with OmniVision’s OV6620 (CIF) and OV7620 (VGA) color digital sensor chips. It is designed to support digital sensors up to 800×600 pixels. OmniVision combines a sensor and a USB chip, which creates a low-cost, highly integrated USB camera system without the need for external dynamic random access memory (DRAM).
More On The OV518+
The OV518+, along with an OmniVision sensor chip, is a low-cost, dual-chip solution for a high-resolution USB PC camera application. The OV518+ low-voltage (3.3V I/O and 2.5V core) design enables low power consumption and requires no external DRAM, keeping costs low and functionality high. USB features include a built-in USB transceiver, eight isochronous interface alternates of up to seven megabits per second (Mbps) USB transfer rate and USB 1.1 compliance. Its audio interface includes a sampling rate of eight KHz and audio device class 1.0 compliance. The product boasts a proprietary real-time compression engine, a programmable switching power clock, serial camera control bus, general-purpose I/O pins and a built-in phase-locked loop (PLL)
Window 98/2000 & ME drivers are available from OmniVision in addition to Apple Imac drivers. Reference designs and PC board layout are available. OmniVision’s complete line of tools and services enables true one-stop shopping for a USB camera design.
Pricing And Availability
The OV518+ is sold with OmniVision’s OV6620 and OV7620 products. The OV518+ in a 100-pin Quad Flat Pack (QFP) is immediately available for $7.00 in volume quantities.
About OmniVision
In July 2000, OmniVision completed its initial public offering of five million shares. OmniVision’s single-chip camera was named “Product of the Year” in January 2000 by Electronic Products magazine. The technology is used in digital cameras, security and surveillance equipment, medical instruments, toys, hand-held computers, cell phones and many other applications.
OmniVision Technologies, Inc. designs, develops and markets high-performance, high-quality and cost-efficient camera chips. The company’s single-chip image sensors are used in a variety of electronic cameras and optical imaging products for both still picture and live video applications. OmniVision provides all the functionality of a complete camera, and only a lens need be added. OmniVision is able to integrate all image system functions into a single chip instead of multiple chips required to achieve the same functions by competitive image sensors. The single-chip design enables customers to design cameras that are lower in cost, smaller, lighter in weight, consume less power, are more reliable and more easily integrated with other circuits than cameras using multiple-chip image sensors. OmniVision is based in Sunnyvale, California. For more information about the company, visit www.ovt.com.