Vivante Corporation
| Founded | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | , |
| Products | Semiconductor intellectual property |
| Website | www |
Vivante Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with an R&D center in Shanghai, China. The company was founded in 2004 as GiQuila and focused on the portable gaming market. The company's first product was a DirectX-compatible graphics processing unit (GPU) capable of playing PC games. In 2007, GiQuila changed its name to Vivante and changed the direction of the company to focus on the design and licensing of embedded graphics processing unit designs. The company is licensing its Mobile Visual Reality to semiconductor solution providers that serve embedded computing markets for mobile gaming, high-definition home entertainment, image processing, and automotive display and entertainment.
Vivante is named as a contributor to the HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation.[1]
Products
Since changing directions Vivante has developed a range of GPU cores that are compliant with the OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0 standards as well as the OpenVG standard.[2][3]
| Model | Date | Cores | Die Size (mm2) | Config core[3] | Fillrate (@600 MHz) | Bus width (bit) | API (version) | Video codecs | GFLOPS(@600 MHz) | Usage | |||||||||||
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| MPolygons/s | Pixel (GP/s) | Texture (GT/s) | OpenGL ES | OpenVG | OpenCL | OpenGL | DirectX | MPEG-2 | H.264 | HEVC | VP8 | VP9 | Daala | ||||||||
| GC200 | 32/16 | 3.0/2.0 | 1.1 | — | 3.0/2.1 | 11 | |||||||||||||||
| GC400 | 1(VEC-4) 4(VEC-1) |
32/16 | 3.0/2.0 | 1.1 | 3.0/2.1 | 11 | 6(High) 12(Medium) |
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| GC600 | 1(VEC-4) 4(VEC-1) |
32/16 | 3.0/2.0 | 1.1 | 1.2/1.1 | 3.0/2.1 | 11 | CuBox | |||||||||||||
| GC800 | 1(VEC-4) 4(VEC-1) |
32/16 | 3.0/2.0 | 1.1 | optional | 3.0/2.1 | 11 | RK291x, ATM7013, ATM7019 | |||||||||||||
| GC860 | 1(VEC-4) 4(VEC-1) |
32/16 | 3.0/2.0 | 1.1 | 3.0/2.1 | 11 | Jz4770: GCW-Zero NOVO7 | ||||||||||||||
| GC880 | 1(VEC-4) 4(VEC-1) |
32/16 | 3.0/2.0 | 1.1 | 3.0/2.1 | 11 | |||||||||||||||
| GC1000 | 2/4(VEC-4) 8/16(VEC-1) |
32/16 | 3.0/2.0 | 1.1 | 3.0/2.1 | 11 | ATM7029 | ||||||||||||||
| GC2000 | 4(VEC-4) 16(VEC-1) |
32/16 | 3.0/2.0 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 3.0/2.1 | 11 | 22(High) 44(Medium) |
i.MX6 | ||||||||||||
| GC4000 | 8(VEC-4) 32(VEC-1) |
32/16 | 3.0/2.0 | 1.1 | 3.0/2.1 | 11 | |||||||||||||||
| GC5000 | 8(VEC-4) 32(VEC-1) |
32/16 | 3.0/2.0 | 1.1 | 3.0/2.1 | 11 | 44(High) 88(Medium) |
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| GC6000 | 16(VEC-4) 64(VEC-1) |
32/16 | 3.0/2.0 | 1.1 | 3.0/2.1 | 11 | 88(High) 176(Medium) |
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| GC8000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Adoption
They have announced that as of 2009 they have at least fifteen licensees who have used their GPUs in twenty embedded designs.[4] Application processors using Vivante GPU technology:
- Marvell ARMADA range of SoCs[5]
- Freescale i.MX6 Series[6]
- Ingenic Semiconductor Jz4770[7]
- ICT Godson-2H[8][9]
- Rockchip RK2918
- Actions-semi ATM7029
Linux support
References
- ^ http://hsafoundation.com/ HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation
- ^ "Khronos Technology Conformant Companies". Retrieved July 9, 2009.
- ^ "OpenVG in Hardware". Retrieved July 8, 2009.
- ^ "Vivante Corporation Signs 15th GPU Licensee" (Press release). June 8, 2009. Retrieved July 8, 2009.
- ^ "Vivante GPUs Power Marvell ARMADA Application Processors" (Press release). October 27, 2009. Retrieved February 1, 2010.
- ^ "Vivante GPU IP Cores Power the Latest Freescale i.MX 6 Series of Application Processors" (Press release). April 26, 2011. Retrieved July 31, 2011.
- ^ "Vivante GPU Core Brings Android 3.0 Honeycomb Support to Ingenic's Latest JZ4770 Application Processor" (Press release). June 13th, 2011. Retrieved December 13, 2011.
{{cite press release}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Chinese Academy of Sciences Selects Vivante as GPU Partner for Netbooks" (Press release). June 29th, 2009. Retrieved December 13, 2011.
{{cite press release}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Guess what is ready for tape out: It has a MIPS core and a GPU from Vivante". April 28, 2011. Retrieved December 13, 2011.