Press Releases
Press Releases
DMP 3D Graphics IP Core “SMAPH-S” is selected by Renesas Electronics
2013.04.23
DMP 3D Graphics IP Core “SMAPH-S” is selected by Renesas Electronics
Tokyo, Japan, April 23 2013 – Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP), a leading provider of 2D/3D graphics IP (Intellectual Property) cores, announced today that Renesas Electronics, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, has selected DMP 3D graphics IP core “SMAPH-S”.
SMAPH-S, which supports OpenGL ES® 3.0/2.0, is designed to deliver the best performance at the smallest area while minimizing power consumption. SMAPH-S supports a wide range of product applications from mobile devices such as smartphone and tablet, to multi-function printers, smart TV etc, using a variety of operating systems including Android, Linux, Windows, VxWorks and micro-ITRON. Its small area and low power consumption help to enhance product competitiveness of its adopters.
“We are honored to license SMAPH-S to Renesas Electronics. The requirement for rich graphics expression is growing rapidly, and graphics IP core performance is one of the key factors for recent devices. It is very satisfying for us to have our high performance, small area size and low power consumption recognized by a leading provider like Renesas Electronics.” – Tatsuo Yamamoto, CEO, DMP.
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About DMP
Digital Media Professionals Inc. (TOKYO: 3652) develops industry leading 2D and 3D graphics solutions for global consumer electronics, mobile, embedded and automotive markets. The company was founded in Tokyo, Japan in 2002 and is currently developing several graphics IP cores based on the Khronos™ Group open standards and DMP’s cutting edge 3D graphics IP “Maestro Technology”
DMP Joins Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation to Contribute 3D Graphics and Common Compute Expertise
2012.10.31
Contact: Petri Talala
Digital Media Professionals USA Inc
TEL:+1-408-807-2600
Email: infous11@dmprof.com
DMP Joins Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation
to Contribute 3D Graphics and Common Compute Expertise
Tokyo, Japan– October 30th, 2012 – Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP), a leading provider of 2D/3D graphics Intellectual Property (IP) cores, today announced it has become a new member and contributor to the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation. HSA aims to push standards based architecture and interfaces for common computing use cases between CPU and GPU, enabling more effective hardware accelerated performance and power consumption on next generation compute platforms.
By supporting the HSA Foundation initiative, DMP wants to accelerate and simplify application development for mobile GPGPU platforms. The benefits of heterogeneous architectures and computing will allow smooth user experience for computer vision, image processing and graphics intensive applications on small consumer devices.
“Heterogeneous architectures on mobile GPGPU platforms will greatly benefit users looking for a seamless graphics and compute experience from their electronic devices,” said Greg Stoner, vice president and managing director of the HSA Foundation. “With DMP’s commitment to driving the HSA standard forward, the integration of their technology in next generation mobile, embedded and consumer electronic platforms will change the way consumers interact with their devices.”
“We are thrilled to join HSA foundation as an active contributor and look forward to working with the consortium to push and accelerate the usage of standard heterogeneous architecture in next generation mobile, embedded and consumer devices,” said Tatsuo Yamamoto, CEO of DMP. “We see that by supporting HSA, DMP can expand and deepen our touch in terms of application development ecosystem and vertical industries that will be able to benefit by using DMP graphics IP for next generation consumer devices.”
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About the HSA Foundation
The HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation is a not-for-profit consortium for SoC IP vendors, OEMs, academia, SoC vendors, OSVs and ISVs whose goal is to make it easy to program for parallel computing. HSA members are building a heterogeneous compute ecosystem, rooted in industry standards, for combining scalar processing on the CPU with parallel processing on the GPU while enabling high bandwidth access to memory and high application performance at low power consumption. HSA defines interfaces for parallel computation utilizing CPU, GPU and other programmable and fixed function devices, and support for a diverse set of high-level programming languages, thereby creating the next foundation in general purpose computing. Learn more about HSA and the HSA Foundation at www.hsafoundation.com.
About DMP
Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP)(TOKYO:3652) develops industry leading 2D and 3D graphics solutions for global consumer electronics, mobile, embedded and automotive markets. The company was founded in Tokyo, Japan in 2002 and is currently developing several graphics IP cores based on the open Khronos™ Group standards and DMP’s cutting edge 3D graphics technology “DMP Maestro Technology”.
DMP SMAPH-S Products to Support OpenGL ES 3.0 API Standard
2012.08.07
Contact: Petri Talala
Digital Media Professionals USA Inc.
+1-408-807-2600
Email: infous11@dmprof.com
DMP SMAPH-S Products to Support OpenGL ES 3.0 API Standard
Los Angeles, CA, USA – August 6th, 2012 – Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP), a leading provider of 2D/3D graphics Intellectual Property (IP) cores, today announced new milestone in its scalable SMAPH-S shader based Graphics IP Core product family that now supports the latest OpenGL ES 3.0 API standard released by the Khronos™ Group.
Earlier today The Khronos ™ released new OpenGL ES 3.0 specification that brings mobile 3D graphics to the next level with significant functionality enhancements and backwards compatibility with OpenGL ES 2.0. Below are the highlights of new features of OpenGL ES 3.0:
- OpenGL Shading Language ES 3.00
- Transform feedback support
- Uniform buffer objects and vertex array objects
- Pixel buffer objects
- Sync objects and fences
- Multiple render targets
- Non-power of two textures and 3D textures
- ETC2/EAC texture compression formats
- Depth textures and shadow comparison
“OpenGL ES 3.0 defines significant new 3D functionality that will enable the next generation of visually intensive mobile games and apps,” said Neil Trevett, president of Khronos. “IP vendors are often the first movers to support new generation APIs and Khronos is delighted that DMP already supports OpenGL ES 3.0 in SMAPH-S and will use the Khronos conformance process to certify the compliance of its implementation.”
“We have been one of the leading contributors for Khronos OpenGL ES working group during last several years and developed our most successful graphics products by following the OpenGL ES 1.1 and ES 2.0 specifications as one of the fore-front companies in this industry,“ said Tatsuo Yamamoto, CEO of DMP Inc. “Our SMAPH-S IP family will now add support for the leading edge OpenGL ES 3.0 features and continues to be the most scalable and efficient embedded graphics IP platform available.”
The Khronos™ Group expects to update OpenGL ES Adopter’s Program to provide extensive conformance tests for OpenGL ES 3.0 within six months. DMP SMAPH-S IP cores with OpenGL ES 3.0 support will follow this time schedule to provide fully compliant OpenGL ES 3.0 core to DMP customers.
DMP will demonstrate its SMAPH-S Graphics IP family at SIGGRAPH 2012, the leading global graphics and interactive techniques conference, which will be held in Los Angeles, USA on Aug 5th – Aug 9th. DMP can be found from booth #658 in LACC exhibition hall on Aug 7th – Aug 9th. We will also sponsor OpenGL’s 20th Anniversary party on Aug 8th at the JW Marriot Los Angeles.
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About DMP
Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP)(TOKYO:3652) develops industry leading 2D/3D graphics solutions to global consumer electronics, mobile, embedded and automotive markets. Company has been founded at Tokyo, Japan in 2002 and is currently developing several graphics IP cores based on the open Khronos™ Group standards and DMP’s cutting edge 3D graphics technology DMP Maestro Technology.
For more about DMP, please visit our website: http://www.dmprof.com/english/
About The Khronos Group
The Khronos Group is an industry consortium creating open standards to enable the authoring and acceleration of parallel computing, graphics and dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms and devices. Khronos standards include OpenGL®, OpenGL® ES, WebGL™, WebCL™, OpenCL™, OpenMAX™, OpenVG™, OpenSL ES™, OpenVL™, StreamInput™ and COLLADA™. All Khronos members are able to contribute to the development of Khronos specifications, are empowered to vote at various stages before public deployment, and are able to accelerate the delivery of their cutting-edge media platforms and applications through early access to specification drafts and conformance tests. More information is available at www.khronos.org.
DMP Delivers New Platform IP Offering for Optimized SoC Integration with Graphics and Media Cores
2012.06.05
Contact: Petri Talala
Digital Media Professionals USA Inc.
+1-408-807-2600
Email: infous11@dmprof.com
DMP Delivers New Platform IP Offering for Optimized SoC Integration with Graphics and Media Cores
Taipei, Taiwan– June 5th, 2012 – Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP), a leading provider of 2D/3D graphics Intellectual Property (IP) cores, today announced new Platform IP offering that provides highly optimized bus interconnect and memory interface IP cores and enables industry leading system level performance and low power implementation in SoC.
DMP Platform IP offering enables performance optimization and low power implementation based on DMP’s decade long GPU and SoC design experiences in the areas of priority control and bandwidth sharing between CPU and GPU plus the performance optimization of DDR DRAM I/F for CPU and GPU applications. New Platform IP offers two products:
- Loputo|BUS: The optimized bus interconnect IP to CPU and GPU bus access characteristics including support for OCP-IP, AMBA AXI4/AXI3, AHB, APB protocols, smart and dynamic priority control and optimized power control.
- Loputo|MEMC: The optimized DRAM controller to various characteristics of CPU and GPU master interface and DRAM memory access including features such as smart request control, various memory access pattern support. It also supports QoS control for real-time access transactions such as LCD controller and camera interfaces.
DMP Platform IP products can be provided as stand-alone products or married with the SMAPH graphics core family. Joint-solution enables highly balanced system integration without extra optimization cost for power consumption and performance. Smart control mechanism of power and memory QoS will also reduce cost in both hardware and software development area.
“Optimum design of SoC bus interconnect and memory subsystem has always been one of the biggest challenges for our SoC customers integrating CPUs and GPUs.” said Tatsuo Yamamoto, CEO of DMP. “We are thrilled to announce this new offering that allows our customers to bring their products into the market faster with lower development and integration costs while achieving unparalleled balanced performance for both CPU and GPU. ”
DMP will demonstrate new Platform IP offering together with its industry leading SMAPH graphics cores at COMPUTEX TAIPEI, the largest computer exhibition in Asia, on June 5th – 9th ,2012.
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About DMP
Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP)(TOKYO:3652) develops industry leading 2D/3D graphics solutions to global consumer electronics, mobile, embedded and automotive markets. Company has been founded at Tokyo, Japan in 2002 and is currently developing several graphics IP cores based on the open Khronos™ Group standards and DMP’s cutting edge 3D graphics technology DMP Maestro Technology.
For more about DMP, please visit our website: http://www.dmprof.com/english/
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DMP Introduces High-End OpenGL ES 2.0 IP Cores and Multi-Core Configurations to Its SMAPH-S Product Family
2012.05.07
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Contact: Petri Talala Digital Media Professionals USA Inc. Phone: +1-408-807-2600 Email: infous11@dmprof.com |
DMP Introduces High-End OpenGL ES 2.0 IP Cores and Multi-Core Configurations to Its SMAPH-S Product Family
Company also extends its low-end offering with the world’s smallest OpenGL ES 2.0 IP core: SMAPH-S Lite
Tokyo, Japan– May 7th, 2012 – Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP), a leading provider of 2D/3D graphics Intellectual Property (IP) cores, today ann1ounced significant product expansion to its scalable SMAPH-S shader based Graphics IP Core product family including:
- New high-end and OpenGL ES 2.0 compliant IP cores with multi core deployment (MP) support that offers the industry leading graphics rendering and computing performance.
- SMAPH-S Lite, the most cost effective graphics IP core that offers the smallest OpenGL ES 2.0 compliant silicon footprint in the industry.
All new SMAPH-S IP cores are ready for customers’ SoC deployments immediately.
DMP’s SMAPH-S OpenGL ES 2.0 product family offers the industry’s best scalability from low-end graphics cores to high-end. When SMAPH-S Lite is the smallest OpenGL ES 2.0 IP core in the world, the new high-end SMAPH-S variants and multicore configurations will provide the highest performance in the market, but also 2-4 times smaller die size and power consumption compared to competitive offerings today. This IP product offering has been achieved by DMP’s innovative and state-of-the-art SMAPH-S architecture design where it is easy to increase or decrease the number of shader processors and/or rendering pipelines to meet exact performance, die size, and power consumption requirements of the target platform. The highlights for new SMAPH-S high-end IP cores are:
- Number of shader processors (SP) is extended to 32 at each core.
- Number of rendering pipelines is extended to 8 at each core.
- Multi core configuration is supported up to 4MPs.
SMAPH-S Lite is a tiny 3D graphics IP core that offers industry lowest power consumption based on its innovative power saving technologies and highly optimized OpenGL ES 2.0 based shader pipelines. SMAPH-S Lite has been optimized to offer ultra-low power, good performance and low cost GPU solution to modern applications in a wide range of consumer devices starting from entry-level feature mobile phones, to other consumer devices such as printers and cameras.
“Our customers are demanding embedded graphics solutions that meet extremely low-cost, low-power requirements and can still deliver good performance and visually pleasing user interfaces in consumer devices. Same time mobile and tablet industry is looking for ultra-high resolutions to be supported in next generation mobile devices and this will require high-end and multicore graphics offering to fill this significantly increased pixel pipeline” said Tatsuo Yamamoto, CEO of DMP. “By scaling our SMAPH-S graphics cores to low and high ends we answer our customers’ needs and further strengthen our industry leadership to provide the most scalable graphics IP offering with the highest performance and the best power efficiency per square millimeter of silicon area.”
DMP will demonstrate new SMAPH-S IP core family at Japan’s embedded tradeshows “ESEC 2012,Tokyo” on May 9th –11th, and at “COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2012” on June 5th – 9th, the largest computer exhibition in Asia.
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About DMP
Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP)(TOKYO:3652) develops industry leading 2D/3D graphics solutions to global consumer electronics, mobile, embedded and automotive markets. Company has been founded at Tokyo, Japan in 2002 and is currently developing several graphics IP cores based on the open Khronos™ Group standards and DMP’s cutting edge 3D graphics technology DMP Maestro Technology.
For more about DMP, please visit our website: http://www.dmprof.com/english/
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DMP Joins TSMC Soft IP Alliance
2011.10.11
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PR Contact: Keisuke Kirii IR Contact: Hiroyuki Ito Phone: +81-422-60-3480 Email: info_06@dmprof.com |
Digital Media Professionals(DMP) Joins TSMC Soft IP Alliance
Tokyo, Japan – October 11th, 2011 – Digital Media Professional Inc. (DMP)(TOKYO:3652), a leading provider of 2D/3D graphics IP core, today announced that it has joined the TSMC Soft IP Alliance Program.
DMP graphics IP cores feature low-power, small footprint and high performance for embedded graphics applications in mobile, home, car, amusement and office.
“We’re pleased to join TSMC’s Soft IP Alliance Program to help accelerate our business both here and abroad,” said Tatsuo Yamamoto, President & CEO of DMP.
“Adding DMP gives our customers greater access to their products and enhances customers’ confidence in the quality of result via our IP assurance program,” said Suk Lee, TSMC Director of Design Infrastructure Marketing.
About DMP
Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP)(TOKYO:3652) is a world-class leader bringing 2D and 3D graphics solutions to market from Japan since its founding in 2002, and is currently developing graphics IP core based on DMP’s cutting edge 3D graphics technology DMP Maestro Technology.
Head office: 1-15-5 Naka-cho, Musashino-shi, Tokyo, Japan
President & CEO: Tatsuo Yamamoto
For more about DMP, please visit our website: http://www.dmprof.com/english/
©2011 Digital Media Professionals Inc.
The company logo and DMP are registered trademarks or trademarks of Digital Media Professionals Inc.. Rights to other registered trademarks or other trademarks belong to their respective.
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DMP and Xilinx Collaborate on Xilinx Alliance Program
2010.11.01
Press Release
DMP and Xilinx Collaborate on Xilinx Alliance Program
Tokyo, Japan November 1st, 2010 - Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP hereafter), a world-class leader in 2D/3D graphics solutions, headquartered in Tokyo Japan, today announced that DMP has become a member of the Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) Alliance Program.
Xilinx Alliance Program members make up a worldwide ecosystem of qualified companies that have a proven track record in delivering products and services built for Xilinx programmable logic technologies. DMP provide the competitive FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) solutions in aspects of system cost benefits and lowering design risks with its IP products tightly cooperating with Xilinx’s platforms.
Through the alliance program, DMP provides the“PICA®200 for FPGA” a full 3D graphics IP core compliant with OpenGL ES 1.1 under a common set of terms known as the SignOnce IP License. DMP also provides “SMAPH®-F” a full vector graphics IP core compliant with OpenVG 1.1 to Xilinx platforms.
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About DMP
Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP) is a world-class leader bringing 2D and 3D graphics solutions to market from Japan since its founding in 2002, and is currently developing graphics IP core based on DMP’s cutting edge 3D graphics technology DMP Maestro Technology. (Headquarters at: 1-15-5 Naka-cho, Musashino-shi, Tokyo; Capital: 350 million JPY; President & C.E.O.: Tatsuo Yamamoto; http://www.dmprof.com/english/ )
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions. For more information, visit http://www.xilinx.com/.
©2010 Digital Media Professionals Inc.
The company logo, DMP, PICA, and SMAPH are registered trademarks or trademarks of Digital Media Professionals Inc. in Japan. Rights to other registered trademarks or other trademarks belong to their respective owners.
DMP Releases Android™ OpenGL ES 3D Graphics E-learning Kit
2010.07.26
Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP) today announced that it will start selling the English version of its Android 3D Graphics Learning Kit from August 2010. DMP will showcase the first public exhibition of its Android 3D Graphics Learning Kit (English Version) at SIGGRAPH 2010, the world’s largest computer graphics conference and tradeshow in Los Angeles, United States (Khronos Booth #1201). The kit has already been available in Japanese since February this year but the English version will allow programmers in all countries to study OpenGL ES on self learning basis.
The Android 3D Graphics Learning Kit is an e-learning aid designed to help individuals to learn programming using OpenGL ES, a standard 3D graphics API used on wide variety of embedded products today. Starting from the basics, the kit is designed to make learning programming easy, even for beginners. It enables the user to acquire the basic skills required to develop actual software by learning OpenGL ES programming through exercises performed on the Android platform.
DMP regularly conducts OpenGL ES program training courses I and II, which are approved by the Khronos Group as their official training courses, in Japan.
<Product Overview>
Product name: OpenGL ES Learning Kit for Android
Price: USD $98 (Personal License） / USD $49 (Academic License)
License period: 1 year
Number of pages: 231
Runtime: Approx. 4 hours
Press Release: DMP 3D Graphics IP core “PICA200″ is adopted by Nintendo 3DS™
2010.06.21
Digital Media professionals Inc. (HQ: Musashino-shi, Tokyo, CEO: Tatsuo Yamamoto, hereafter DMP) has announced that the DMP 3D Graphics IP “PICA200″ is adopted by Nintendo’s new portable game machine “Nintendo 3DS”.
PICA200 features proprietary DMP 3D graphics extensions “Maestro technology”. By hardware implementation of complex shader functionality, these extensions allow the high performance graphics rendering found on existing high-end products to be realized on mobile devices with low power consumption requirements, such as portable game machines.
“We had a very ambitious goal in the realization of naked-eye 3D stereo vision, and video game console style high quality graphics rendering, whilst maintaining low power consumption. I am delighted that we were able to contribute with ‘Maestro technology’, which we have developed over several years at DMP”, said Tatsuo Yamamoto, President and CEO, DMP.
* This press release is translated from original Japanese.
DMP Licenses SMAPH-F IP Cores to Renesas Electronics Corporation
2010.04.01
DMP today announced that DMP has licensed the SMAPH-F, the latest OpenVG1.1 compliant graphics IP core to Renesas Electronics Corporation, for use in its next-generation system-on-chip (SoC) for consumer applications.