Vendor: TES Electronic Solutions Category: GPU

2.5D GPU

The D/AVE HD 2.5D GPU family is an evolution of the D/AVE 2D family supporting high quality 2D and 3D rendering for displays up t…

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Overview

The D/AVE HD 2.5D GPU family is an evolution of the D/AVE 2D family supporting high quality 2D and 3D rendering for displays up to 4K x 4K. Targeting modern graphics applications on high resolution displays in the Industrial, Medical, Military, Avionics, Automotive and Consumer markets, the D/AVE HD fixed-function 2.5D GPU core is designed to be fast with powerful functionality. In addition, it is configurable regarding feature set versus footprint. The resource optimized variants are the ideal choice e.g. for feature rich wearables, smart watches and IoT devices with animated vector graphics 2D and 3D GUIs, while the fully featured variants target performance demanding graphics in professional and high-end consumer electronics applications including full OpenVG 1.1 vector graphics support.

D/AVE HD is available for both FPGA and ASIC integration with high customizability and scalability and silicon proven for many years e.g. in automotive products.

Product Updates

In 2022 D/AVE HD got several updates especially targeting low-power and low-cost mass market applications such as wearables and general purpose MCUs. Here a summary of the most important improvements:

  • TES new Framebuffer Compression down to 1 byte per pixel
  • TES new Stable Dithering modes - allowing additional "high-quality framebuffer compression" down to 2 byte per pixel
  • BC1 texture compression
  • Support for additional frambuffer and texture formats:
    • 24bit color formats RGB 888, BGR 888, ARGB 8565, RGBA 5658
    • 8bit formats ARGB 2222, RGBA 2222
  • Excellent customizability for optimal feature/footprint balance
  • Improved integrability

Key features

  • Advanced Graphics Features:
    • 3D graphics operations
    • Rotation Engine
    • Composition Engine
    • Transformation & Warping Support
  • High-performance pixel pipeline (typically 4 times faster than D/AVE 2D, up to 20 times for particular use cases)
  • Framebuffer compression down to 1 byte per pixel
  • Full Khronos compliant OpenVG 1.1 API (optional)
  • Optimized Power Management Support
  • Hardware multi-threading support
  • Hardware system security support
  • Highly configurable to optimally meet specific target application scenarios

Block Diagram

D/AVE HD block diagram

What’s Included?

APIs

D/AVE HD is provided with the following APIs. The drivers are reentrant and OS agnostic.

  • D/AVE HD API
  • Optionally:
    • D/AVE 2D Wrapper API
    • OpenVG 1.1
    • EGL 1.3
  • Others are possible on request

D/AVE HD Eval Kits

Various options are available. All of them are delivered with:

  • D/AVE HD bare metal drivers as precompiled library
  • D/AVE HD demo- and test-applications as source code
  • SoftDave: Pixel exact emulator for D/AVE HD allowing to run all provided applications on Windows PCs
    • No hardware is needed to take the first steps in evaluating D/AVE HD!
  • Installation guide, API documentation and tutorial

Beside the SoftDave PC Eval Kit also FPGA-based Eval Kits are available allowing to experience D/AVE HD under real-time conditions.

Files

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Specifications

Identity

Part Number
D/AVE HD
Vendor
TES Electronic Solutions

Provider

TES Electronic Solutions
HQ: Germany
TES Electronic Solutions is a global electronic technology and services company offering innovative solutions and custom electronic design as well as a blend of hardware (for ASICs and FPGAs) and software IP. Besides designing customer specific systems or sub-systems that are optimized to customers’ applications, TES also develops licensable wireless, graphics,GUI, video-IO and multimedia IP accelerating time to market. From its design centers in Germany, and with its broad expertise in GUI concepts, industrial design, hardware-, software-, FPGA- and ASIC-development TES provides innovative solutions in the areas of RF / wireless, professional multimedia, embedded graphics and RF / mixed-signal ASICs. TES serves a wide range of customers from well-known highly specialized middle-size companies to global market leaders.
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