Partnership provides a complete compute solution and demonstrates the flexibility of combined IPs
London, England – 18th January, 2022 – Imagination Technologies and Andes Technology announces the successful testing and validation of the IMG B-Series Graphics Processing Units (GPU) with the RISC-V compliant Andes AX45, a 64-bit high performance-efficient and configurable superscalar Central Processing Unit (CPU). This validation partnership offers customers in AR/VR, In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) systems, Industrial and Internet of Things (IoT) products a proven, complete solution and lays the ground work for continuous testing.
The IMG BXE-2-32 GPU was validated alongside the Andes AX45 CPU as a part of a Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) platform, containing networking, memory and peripherals. The FPGA rendered numerous graphics workloads and benchmarks using a Linux based operating system. This FPGA demonstrates the flexibility of the IMG B-Series GPU and the interoperability of the Andes AX45 RISC-V CPU.
Colin McKellar, Vice President of Hardware Engineering, Imagination Technologies, says: “RISC-V is a CPU architecture that is going from strength to strength. Our work in validating the B-Series GPU with Andes AX45 RISC-V CPU highlights the flexibility of both platforms. The customizable nature of Imaginations ecosystem allowed for the rapid prototyping of a fully working system in less than a week, from integration to implementation and on to validation.”
McKellar continues: “Collaborating with Andes highlights the exceptional talent in both organisations. The ease of integration, both of the hardware and our teams paves the way for a highly beneficial ongoing partnership and shows that there are exciting alternatives to the current CPU incumbents.
Dr. Charlie Su, President and CTO of Andes Technology, says: “RISC-V ecosystem is growing rapidly. To continue its growth and showcase the many possible ways it can be deployed we partnered with Imagination to provide a quick and easy path to validated GPU IP blocks that can reduce SoC design time, risk and cost for our customers. With a flexibly designed GPU, and our highly configurable dual-issue AX45 RISC-V core, we were able to establish requirements for the system in a short time and generate the optimum configuration to provide a validated proof of concept.”
About Andes Technology
Sixteen years in business and a Founding Premier member of RISC-V International, Andes (TWSE: 6533; SIN: US03420C2089; ISIN: US03420C1099), is a leading supplier of high-performance/low-power 32/64-bit embedded processor IP solutions, and the driving force in taking RISC-V mainstream. Andes’ fifth-generation AndeStar™ architecture adopted the RISC-V as the base. Its V5 RISC-V CPU families range from tiny 32-bit cores to advanced 64-bit cores with DSP, FPU, Vector, Linux, superscalar, and/or multicore capabilities. The annual volume of Andes-Embedded SoCs has exceeded 2 billion since 2020 and continues to rise. At the end of 2021, the cumulative volume of Andes-Embedded™ SoCs has reached 10 billion. For more information, please visit https://www.andestech.com.
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About Imagination Technologies
Imagination is a UK-based company that creates silicon and software IP (intellectual property) designed to give its customers an edge in competitive global technology markets. Its GPU, CPU and AI technologies enable outstanding power, performance, and area (PPA), fast time-to-market and lower total cost of ownership. Products based on Imagination IP are used by billions of people across the globe in their smartphones, cars, homes, and workplaces. See https://www.imaginationtech.com/.
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Andes Technology’s Press Contact:
Jonah McLeod Jonahm@andestech.com +001 510 449 8634
Hsiaoling Lin hllin@andestech.com +886 3 572 6533
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Jo Jones jo.jones@imgtec.com +44 (0)1923 260 511
