With IMG A-Series Imagination made an distinctive leap over earlier generations, leading to an industry-leading place for efficiency and energy traits. B-Series is an additional evolution delivering the very best efficiency per mm² for GPU IP and providing new configurations for decrease energy and as much as 35% decrease bandwidth for a given efficiency goal, making it a compelling resolution for top-tier designs.
B-Series presents a variety of configurations to develop the choices obtainable for our clients. With scalability on the coronary heart, it’s the final resolution for a number of markets similar to cell (premium to entry-level), shopper, IoT, microcontrollers, DTV and automotive. The new multi-core choices additionally allow IMG BXT to succeed in knowledge centre ranges of efficiency, a singular functionality for GPU IP.
B-Series additionally incorporates the primary ISO 26262-capable cores with IMG BXS offering a variety of choices for automotive; from small, safety-fallback cores, to a number of teraflops of compute for superior driver-assistance techniques (ADAS) and high-performance autonomy.
Chris Porthouse, Chief Product Officer, Imagination Technologies, says; “We’ve taken our sweet spot high-performance, power-optimised cores and incorporated an innovative decentralised approach to multi-core to deliver high-efficiency scaling and compatibility with industry trends such as chiplet architectures. This allows us to offer a range of performance levels and configurations not previously possible in GPU IP.”
Simon Beresford-Wylie, CEO, Imagination Technologies, says; “IMG B-Series gives our customers more choice. It builds on the massive investment and technology advantage we gained with A-Series and adds multi-core technology to expand Imagination’s GPU offerings with a staggering total of 33 new configurations. With B-Series, we believe we have the best GPU offering for everyone, whatever their requirements.”
IMG B-Series is obtainable at the moment and already has lead licensees for each product household.
Advanced multi-core structure
The new multi-core structure has been optimised for every of the product households with BXT and BXM cores that includes multi-primary full-core scaling, combining the facility of the entire cores to ship most single-app efficiency or optionally enabling the cores to run unbiased functions
BXE cores supply primary-secondary scaling, an area-optimised resolution that presents a single high-performance GPU, whereas making use of our HyperLane expertise for multitasking.
BXS Automotive cores additionally characteristic multi-core with a multi-primary design enabling efficiency scaling in addition to security checks to be carried out throughout cores to verify right execution.
The finest picture compression expertise
IMG B-Series additionally contains IMGIC, probably the most superior picture compression expertise out there to offer new bandwidth saving choices for our clients. It presents as much as 4 ranges of compression, from pixel-perfect lossless modes to an excessive bandwidth-saving mode, which presents a assured 4:1 or higher compression fee. This provides extra flexibility for SoC designers to optimise both for efficiency or to cut back system value whereas sustaining an excellent person expertise. IMGIC is appropriate with each core throughout the B-Series vary, bringing the advantages of Imagination’s industry-leading picture compression to even the smallest cores.
The IMG B-Series cores
IMG B-Series is obtainable in 4 product households that provide specialised cores for particular market wants:
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