Closed Source FPGAs with MIPI
For applications requiring more bandwidth one has to use an FPGA not supported by the open source Yosys synthesis and Nextpnr placement tools.
AMD’s Xilinx has a great reputation at the high end of the market. For low-cost FPGAs, there are better choices.
INTEL’s Altera is the other high end FPGA vendor. Intels drama-filled relationship with Altera has been much in the news recently.
Efinix FPGA View
Efinix is a newer company, closed-source, but the hardware offerings are evolving rapidly and look most interesting.
I am using this FPGA for video processng on drones.
Lattice NX33 View
Lattice Semiconductor’s Crosslink NX-33 is closed source, but it also has a USB-3 device hard core.
The difference between the NX-17/40 is that the NX-33 is that the latter uses fabric from the Certus series of chips. So the NX-33 has only one PLL, no DDR support and no Data Q Strobe (DQS). DQS is output by a memory chip, signaling it to register what is on the bus. NX-33 also exposes a 5 Gbit/s SerDes channel. The $250 NX-33 tinyCLUNX developer kit is recommended. For applications requiring more bandwidth one has to use an FPGA not supported by the open source Yosys synthesis and Nextpnr placement tools.
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