pico 2D Graphics Processor for Wearables/IoT

Features

• Fully programmable engine with a VLIW instruction set
• Fixed point functional units
• Command list based DMAs to minimize CPU overhead
• Compression schemes
• Framebuffer: 4bpp
• Texture: 6bpp with/out alpha
• 2D drawing
• Pixel drawing
• Line drawing (at any direction)
• Filled rectangles
• Triangles (Gouraud Shaded)
• Quadrilaterals
• Smart Composition
• One pass composition
• Hidden sreas are not read from memory
• YUV layers are automatically processed without intermediate conversion
• Video scaler
• Blit support
• Rotation (any angle)
• Mirroring (vertical, horizontal)
• Stretch (independently on x and y axis)
• Source and/or destination color keying
• Format conversion
• RGB and YUV
• Text rendering supports
• A1 bitmap
• A8 bitmap antialiased
• Subsampled antialiased
• Color formats
• 32/16/8 bit RGB with/out alpha
• GreyScale
• YUV
• Full Alpha blending
• Programmable blending modes including Porter-Duff / DirectFB blending modes
• Source/Destination color keying
• Image transformation
• Texture mapping
• Point sampling
• Bilinear filtering
• Antialiasing
• Quadrilaterals per edge Antialiasing
• Antialiased lines

Benefits

• Performance per mWatt per Dollar
• The NEMA-GPU Series performance per silicon area per clock frequency is unrivaled in its class. NEMA|p has been designed to perform favorable against these critical performance benchmarks. As a result NEMA|p uses 87% less active and 98% less idle power and has a 4 times smaller silicon footprint (compared to the competition), leading to significant cost reduction.
• Think Silicon's proprietary 4bpp (bits-per-pixel) real-time frame-buffer compression (TSFBc), the 6bpp texture compression and real-time de-compression (TSTXc) benefits architects and finance controllers equally. The compressed images and the software libraries are so small in size that they fit into the internal SoC memory. As a result, expensive external DDR memory can be minimized or entirely eliminated. This reduces the SoC idle power consumption about impressive 98%, extends system battery life about 10 times and lowers the overall BOM cost. The combined performance and cost advantages make NEMA|p to a Performance-Power-Cost leader in the class of 2D GPU's.

Deliverables

• Deliverables include: complete set of synthesis and STA (Static Timing Analysis) scripts, OS drivers (for Linux, FreeRTOS), graphics API software libraries (for uGFX, DirectFB, Qt) and standalone bare drivers.
• Documentation includes: IP manual, integration manual, software library manual including code samples, and demonstration platform application notes.
• A reference design systems and demo-sets are available for platforms: Xilinx Zynq, Altera SoCkit.

Applications

• NEMA|p is the perfect candidate to support entry level IoT-platforms, wearable and embedded devices with low cost and ultra-low power requirements supporting SoC's with a 32-bit MCU (e.g. ARM® Cortex®M processors) and provide fluid 2D graphics experience for a wide range of applications.
• Developers are able to create compelling 2D Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) and software applications with ultra-long battery life at a significantly lower cost for power-memory-area constrained IoT devices.
• For example, with core frequencies just as little as 25MHz, NEMA|p delivers a fast and brilliant 2D UI experience on a VGA (640x480) screen, without being limited to these parameters.

Block Diagram of the pico 2D Graphics Processor for Wearables/IoT

Video Demo of the pico 2D Graphics Processor for Wearables/IoT

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