POWERVR Graphics

POWERVR™ graphics IP consists of the industry's leading graphics accelerators supporting a broad range of applications in mobile, consumer and computing segments. POWERVR enables a powerful and flexible solution for all forms of multimedia processing, including 3D/2D/vector graphics and general purpose processing (GP-GPU) including image processing.

POWERVR's unique tile-based, deferred rendering/shading architecture allows a very small area of a die to deliver higher performance and image quality at lower power consumption than all competing technologies. All major APIs are supported including OpenGL ES 2.0/1.1, OpenVG 1.1, OpenGL 2.0/3.0 and DirectX9/10.1 and OpenCL.

The POWERVR SGX™ Series5 architecture provides a powerful and flexible shader-based graphics solution for all forms of next-generation embedded 3D, 2D and vector graphics, incorporating advanced anti-aliasing capabilities and programmability (via GLSL or OpenCL) for image processing and other intensive multimedia tasks . POWERVR SGX IP Cores have been adopted by the market leaders for the next generation of SoC application processors and is compatible with the massive back catalogue of POWERVR MBX applications.

The POWERVR SGX Series5XT architecture extends the SGX family capabilities bringing a market leading feature set with dedicated YUV and Colour Space Accelerators. Impressive performance levels are achieved through multi-processor capability combined with twice the peak floating point and instruction throughput of equivalent Series5 architecture cores. All the benefits and backwards compatibility with the SGX Series5 IP core family are maintained.

POWERVR MBX™ is the de facto standard for mobile 3D, 2D and vector graphics acceleration and is being used today by the majority of leading semiconductor companies for their mobile graphics solutions. It has been deployed in hundreds of products from many leading OEMs, with >200m units shipped.

The POWERVR VGX150 graphics IP core is the first in a family of native OpenVG 1.1 compliant graphics acceleration IP cores that meet the multimedia requirements of next-generation highly integrated applications processors where vector graphics performance and quality with minimal CPU load is a priority.

A comprehensive Software Development Kit (SDK) is available through the POWERVR Insider website www.powervrinsider.com, as well as a more comprehensive version for IP licensees. The SDK provides extensive tools, tutorials, documentation and worked source code examples, and is used widely throughout the developer community for developing and optimising graphics-rich applications.

POWERVR Insider, the premier ecosystem programme for mobile and consumer graphics developers brings together thousands of members and provides comprehensive support for developers, publishers and middleware developers as well as extensive co-marketing opportunities for OEMs, ODMs, content developers and semiconductor companies.