Vendor: Imagination Technologies Group Ltd. Category: GPU

A-Series GPU IP

Big performance. Tiny footprint.

Overview

“Our most compact GPU IP to date. Optimised for minimal silicon area without compromising performance. A-Series is engineered to deliver efficient, high-quality graphics where space and power are at a premium.

The IMG A-Series is a future-proof range of efficient GPU IP for markets where highly responsive graphical user interfaces are needed, but manufacturing cost and device price are critical.

These small cores, based on a highly power-conscious architecture, are perfect for industrial and wearable applications, with higher performance configurations available for mainstream mobile.

A TRUE PERFORMER

An architecture that exemplifies the power efficiency of Imagination GPUs while delivering the performance density to handle challenging graphics workloads. View our demo below to see how our architecture showcases the true performance of our GPU.

MEET THE A-SERIES GPU FAMILY

  • IMG AXE: IMG AXE combines small silicon area with excellent performance. Support for Vulkan, OpenGL ES and OpenCL enables developers to leverage the latest standards to make the most efficient use of the hardware. Perfect for industrial applications and wearable devices.

  • IMG AXT: IMG AXT can deliver up to 32 GPixel/s and 1 TFLOPS performance. AXT cores take full advantage of the A-Series’ architecture’s bandwidth-optimising configurable caches and performance-boosting ultra-wide arithmetic logic units.

Benefits

 

LOWER BILL OF MATERIALS

IMG A-Series delivers all the graphics performance needed while maintaining a low area and superlative bandwidth and power management.

DEVELOPER FRIENDLY

IMG A-Series supports the latest APIs including OpenGL ES, Vulkan and OpenCL. Software optimisation tools enable developers to quickly analyse frames and identify problem areas.

EXPERT SUPPORT

Imagination only succeeds when our customers succeed. We offer tailored support for integrating Imagination IP into a product, as well as access to a regularly updated DDK and our comprehensive suite of developer tools.

Applications

INDUSTRIAL

Update the user experience on industrial devices with the area-efficient A-Series GPU, guaranteed to banish clunky, unresponsive user interfaces to the past.

WEARABLES

The low area, power conscious A-Series GPUs are perfect for devices where space is at a premium, but a responsive user interface is a must-have.

MOBILE

Power management optimisations combine with the innate performance of A-Series GPUs to bring a smooth user interface and sustained gaming performance to mainstream mobile devices.

Specifications

Identity

Part Number
A-Series GPU IP
Vendor
Imagination Technologies Group Ltd.
Type
Silicon IP

Videos

IMG A-Series GPU
IMG A-Series is a range of ultra-efficient, highly-featured, high-performance GPUs based on tile-based deferred rendering, offering 2.5x the performance of previous shipping PowerVR GPUs.

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Frequently asked questions about GPU IP cores

What is A-Series GPU IP?

A-Series GPU IP is a GPU IP core from Imagination Technologies Group Ltd. listed on Semi IP Hub.

How should engineers evaluate this GPU?

Engineers should review the overview, key features, supported foundries and nodes, maturity, deliverables, and provider information before shortlisting this GPU IP.

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