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VIma Overview
Our Mission Provide high quality video
solutions, for consumer applications, while
enabling end- user product differentiation

• VIma is a fab-less semiconductor company based in
  Taiwan with Design Centers in Silicon Valley and
  Taiwan.
• VIma intents to provide market first,
  programmable solutions for the display industry,
  including
• DETV (Digitally Enhanced TV)
• DTV (Digital TV)
• HDTV (High Definition TV)
• LCD TV (Liquid Crystal Display TV)

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Technology Overview
Standard Definition TeleVision
CRT / Projection
SDTV
Color
NTSC/PAL Decoder
Luma / Chroma Processing
Interlaced Deflection Control
DACs
Analog Reception
NTSC/PAL
Tuner
ADCs
Digitally Enhanced TeleVision
CRT / Projection
DETV
Color
Display Processor
Color decoder
3D comb filter
scaling
Drivers
Plasma TV
Digital Tele Vision
High Definition TeleVision
Digital Reception
LCD/ TV
DTV / HDTV
Digital
Decryption
MPEG2
ATSC/DVB
CA System
Tuner
Decoder
HDTV
VImas Focus
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VImas Solution
The Seamless blending of two technologies

• Programmable Technology
• VIma is developing an one mask programmable logic
  core (VORTEX) with 50K usable gates and 50K
  bits of SRAM.
• It can be used to run external algorithms or to
  alter the ones included in the IC
• This core will be available at no additional cost
  to VIma customers.

• Video Technology
• VIma is developing a state of the art display
  processor.
• It is targeted for digital TV
• and multimedia monitor applications.

Video is like the Pizza dough
Vortex is like the Pizza toppings
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Video Technology Features
De-interlacing Low Angle
Cinema View
Gradient based De-interlacing
Cinema View
Film at 24 frames/sec
Extra Frame needed Due to rate difference
Gradient Based EDI (Edge Detection
Interpolation)
Block Selection
NTSC PAL
NTSC at 30 frames/sec PAL at 24 frames/sec
Noise filtering
Low Angle Algorithm
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Programmable Technology Features
The Vortex core contains

• 28 column pairs, each consists of cell-SRAM-cell
  column
• 80 macrocells per column
• Targeted SRAM block size is 1K
• Total macrocells 4480
• Usable logic (not counting RAM) 50k gates

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Conclusion

• VImas target markets are large and rapidly
  expanding.
• VIma possesses unique, patented technology as
  well as the experts to implement it in consumer
  products.
• VImas products are addressing the core of its
  targeted markets and fulfill its customer's unmet
  needs for Differentiation and Time To
  Market.