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APRIL 2012 issue n°128THE DISRUPTIVE SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES MAGAZINEMEMSMicroVision announces definitiveagreements with pioneer for HD PicoPGen2 display engines using directgreen lasersPioneer will manufacture and sell products using Micro-Vision’s PicoP Gen2 display engine technology, providinglicensing revenue to MicroVision.MicroVision, the leader in innovative ultra-miniature projection displaytechnology, announced that it has signed definitive agreements with PioneerCorporation to manufacture, distribute, license and supply MicroVision’sHD PicoP ® Gen2 display engine technology using direct green lasers (PicoP Gen2).Under the agreements, Pioneer will produce PicoP Gen2 display engines for its ownautomotive aftermarket products and will pay MicroVision royalties from sales ofthese products. Pioneer plans to release its first aftermarket head-up display productlater this year.Under the agreements, Pioneer will also manufacture and supply key display enginesubsystems to MicroVision for consumer, industrial, and other applications.MicroVision began shipments of PicoP Gen2 display engine samples to OEMs inFebruary for evaluation and is working to secure commitments from these customersto design products that will use the PicoP Gen2 display technology.This arrangement allows the companies to leverage Pioneer’s advanced operationaltechnologies and product distribution networks to promote adoption of its automotiveaftermarket products and supports MicroVision’s continued transition to an “Imageby PicoP” ingredient brand model, which is expected over time to reduce workingcapital requirements. Additional details of the manufacturing, distribution, licensingand supply agreements were not disclosed.www.microvision.comMEMS packagingmarket is growing twicefaster thanthe overallIC packaging industry…Movea Chemistry of Motion EnablesRapid Prototyping and Development ofMotion-Enabled ProductsCompany’s MoveaLab speeds assembly of SmartMotion ®Elements into advanced motion features.Movea revealed its Chemistry of Motion that enables the company to rapidlyprototype new motion features for customers in the mobile, Interactive TV,sports, and health markets. Built on Movea’s patented SmartMotion ®“atoms”, Chemistry of Motion builds on hundreds of years of R&D which has identifiedthe fundamental elements of human motion and tools for combining SmartMotionatoms into molecules of more complex, end-user features.Movea’s Chemistry of Motion characterizes and organizes the basic elements ofhuman motion and assembles them into “molecules” which represent the richer, morecomplex end-user features that the market is increasingly demanding. In Movea’sTable of SmartMotion Elements, basic features are organized into columns accordingto the type of motion analysis they perform. Each element in the table is characterizedby fundamental properties such as category of motion, computational complexity,sensor configuration and sensor placement.The creation of new features by assembling motion atoms into molecules is acceleratedthrough a powerful internal toolkit the company’s engineers have developed calledMoveaLab. Bruno Flament explains, “When developing new features, our engineersthink in terms of data flows in a functional diagram. To accelerate our developmenttime, we created a signal processing design studio where our extensive library ofalgorithms and IP have been converted into functional blocks that can be organizedinto a signal processing data flow by simply clicking and dragging into place with acomputer mouse. Our engineers can immediately see how the processing flows workwith real sensor data, in real-time and then fine tune the flow to analyze and optimizeperformance. The Graphical User Interface (GUI) has rich and detailed graphicalobjects for feature validation and demos.”www.movea.comMEMSPackagingDiscover the NEWreport oni-Micronews.com/reportsCopyrights © Yole Développement SA. All rights reserved - Recycled paper7