SUGARS AI Products
What AI sees. What AI shows. Both carried uncompressed — Bridge IC and Vision Link IC.
Bridge IC
Somewhere on every camera module line, a test station is running at a resolution the camera does not ship at. The bridge board between the module and the analysis server is built on an FPGA, and its MIPI front end cannot keep up with the sensor in front of it — so resolution and frame rate come down, and the part you qualified is not the part you ship.
Bridge IC replaces that front end with analog silicon designed in-house for the distance and duty cycle a test floor actually runs. It covers the link in both directions: receiving MIPI C-PHY or D-PHY straight off the module and handing the server LVDS, and transmitting CML from a pattern generator into a panel under test.
Vision Link IC
SGM313, in development, is designed to extend a complete camera link — the MIPI D-PHY data lanes and clock, plus I²C — beyond 2 m, with no protocol conversion at either end. The host reads and writes the sensor's registers directly, as though the sensor were on the same board. As design targets, one SGM313 carries a single camera at 4K 120 fps in RAW12, or two cameras at 4K 60 fps each; in the display direction, the same link carries 4K 60 Hz in RGB888.
Nothing in the path is compressed, and there is no frame buffer to add latency. Vision Link IC does not encapsulate: what arrives at the far end is the sensor's own output, not a reconstruction of it.
ASIC & Solutions
Application-specific ICs around SUGARS AI's own MIPI blocks — C-PHY and D-PHY at the physical layer; CSI-2 including Multi-Pixel Compression (MPC); DSI-2 including VESA DSC and VDC-M — and general SoC ASICs with a mixed-signal front end and a digital core in one part. From specification through tape-out, samples, and production support.
For mobile and automotive camera module test: three boards and the software that ties them together — a jig board for the module under test, a CSI-2 RAW recovery board built around Bridge IC with an optical output, and a PCIe capture card with driver in the server. The signal that arrives is the sensor's own RAW output.