HD Visual Reality
GPUs for set-top boxes, MIDs and netbooks, automotive infotainment, navigation systems, portable media players, HDTV, and gaming systems.

2D Graphics: (raster) GC200, GC300 (vector), GC350
3D Graphics: GC400, GC600, GC800, GC1000,

API support

• OpenGL ES 2.0 including all extensions
• OpenGL ES 1.1
• OpenVG 1.1

Hardware features

• Complete floating point pipeline that generates high-quality images
• High-quality anti-aliasing with 4x less memory and processing
• Depth texture for high-quality shadow generation
• Support for screen resolutions of 1080p and beyond

Hardware shaders

• Ultra-threaded vertex and fragment/pixel shader
• Full support for the OpenGL Shading Language without Appendix A exceptions
• High-precision pipeline with support for long instructions
• Dynamic branching in the pixel shader and non-constant varying indexing
• Full support for OpenGL ES 2.0 shading language
• Supports transform and lighting features of OpenGL ES 1.1
• Supports fixed-function texture blending features of OpenGL ES 1.1
• IEEE 32-bit single precision floating point support
• 128-bit pipeline
• Up to 256 vertex and/or fragment threads per shader

Texture Mapping

• 1D/2D texture
• Cubic environment texture
• Projective texture
• Bump map
• Depth map up to 24-bit
• High dynamic range (HDR) textures
• Dependent texture operation with high performance
• Point sample, bi-linear, and tri-linear texture filters
• Supports 8 resident textures simultaneously
• Supports texture size up to 8k x 8k

Video post-processing and peripherals

• Color space conversion
• High-quality image scaling
• Camera preview

Full scene anti-aliasing support

• Supports full scene anti-aliasing
• >4x MSAA equivalent quality with minimal performance degradation
• Patented anti-aliasing algorithm uses one-fourth the memory and processing power to achieve the same quality as multi-sample anti-aliasing

Dedicated 2D unit

• All programmable 2D features

AHB interface

• 256K addressable register space
• 32-bit data bus
• Handles error response for illegal accesses
• Designed to support 200MHz in 65LP

AXI interface

• AMBA AXI protocol-compliant
• 32-bit address bus and 64-bit data bus
• Multiple burst length (8B, 16B, 32B, or 64B)
• High-performance out-of-order / multiple outstanding access
• Supports out-of-order return data from multiple slaves
• Designed to support 400MHz in 65LP
• Asynchronous interface to the graphics core

GC400

GC600

GC800

GC1000

Programmable 2D GPUs: GC200, GC300, GC350

• BitBlt, rectangle fill, line, StretchBlt, and monochrome expansion support
• ROP2, ROP3, ROP4 (transparency) support
• Full alpha blending support
• High-quality 9-tap filter for scaling
• YUV-to-RGB conversion and 8-bit color lookup
• 90°,180°, 270° rotation on every primitive
• Full asynchronous operation through DMA command stream
• Support for clipping rectangle
• Supports up to 255 rectangles per primitive call
• Simple programming interface
• Very low CPU overhead – no need to wait until 2D engine is finished before changing states or issuing new commands
• Allows batching of commands to further reduce CPU overhead (begin/end paradigm)
• High-quality image and video scalar
  • Filter kernel size is programmable from 1x1 to 9x9
  • Vertical and horizontal kernel sizes are independently programmable
  • Filter coefficient can be programmed for any type of filter
  • Supports 32 filter phases
• Programmable format conversion
  • Supports 10 source formats
  • Standard configuration supports 7 destination formats

GC200 programmable 2D GPU

GC300 programmable 2D GPU

GC350 programmable 2D GPU