Media Contact:
Hitoshi
Phone: 81-422-47-5319
/ 8190- 6510-2363
Email: kasai@miacis.com
IR Contact:
Tatsuo Yamamoto, President & C.E.O.,DMP
Inc.
Phone: 81-422-60-3480
Email: info@dmprof.com
http://www.dmprof.com/
Press Release
DMP Unveils New gULTRAY™2000h
Visual Processor
High-end Graphics Chip Enables Cutting Edge Realtime 3D Graphics
ULTRAY 2000 visual processor brings a new visualization solution to a
broad range of fields and applications including scientific and technological
visualization, digital prototypes, on-air graphics, flight
and driving simulators, amusement machines such as arcade games, and for the
fashion and beauty industry. ULTRAY 2000 is available
for shipping in the fall of 2005.
"DMP
team understands the graphics technology and develops hardware along with
authoring solution that best fit the needs of the content providers." said
Tatsuo Yamamoto, President and CEO of DMP. "Taking into the account the authoring
side of the equation, it is impractical to introduce brand new graphics
architecture. DMP's approach is to add new rendering
scheme such as BRDF and gaseous object renderer on top
on the de facto standard architecture to enable the next level of graphics
computing"
Adopting originally developed innovative technology named DMP
Maestro Technology, ULTRAY 2000 models an algorithm
that generates physical light reflection and shadow properties for various
materials and is mounted on the visual processor chip as hardware, which
enables the chip to process extremely real-looking and high-resolution 3-D
graphics at high speeds.
DMP develops sophisticated
technology by modeling various CG algorithms that can then be installed as
hardware as advanced graphics solutions for our customers. DMP Maestro
technology provides the ability to create graphics with even higher resolutions
by reducing the contents size and memory bandwidth size, and cutting down on
energy consumption at the system level.
DMP has optimized DMP Maestro Technology for the embedded market and
is currently developing the next-generation graphics IP core. DMP is a
contributing member of Khronos Group that conducts
industry standardization and testing of graphics APIs intended for embedded
systems. In addition to developing products that are compliant with OpenGL ES,
DMP participates in Khronos' working groups and
actively takes part in activities for developing industry standards.
gHardware acceleration always beats software in
performance and speed. But the tradeoff is usually cost. DMP has changed that
situation by embedding advance computer graphics algorithms into silicon,h said Dr. Jon Peddie, President
of the market research firm Jon Peddie Research in
Tiburon Ca. gRealistic rendering with special effects was something that could
only be obtained on high end game PCs and workstation. With the DMP ULTRAY technology
that kind of performance can be brought to set top boxes, PDAs,
and handheld game consoles.h
ULTRAY2000
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Able to simulate
life-like expressions in combination with a wide array of hardware shading
(Material Maestro Technology)
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Comes installed with
shadow rendering hardware. Able to portray beautiful self shadows (Shadow
Maestro Technology)
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Supports high quality rendering
of fuzzy objects with a gas object renderer (Particle
Maestro Technology)
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Supports Per-Vertex
SSS**
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Supports hair
generator (processor generates hair) (Figure Maestro Technology)
*BRDF: Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function
**SSS: Sub-Surface Scattering
ULTRAY 2000 Main Specifications
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Technology: TSMC 0.13_
CMOS
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Operating Frequency:
200MHz
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Memory: DDR I/F 400MHz
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Package: FCBGA
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Programmable geometry
engine
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Texture unit:
Multi-Texture, Bi/Tri-Linear, Mip/Rip Mapping, Bump
Mapping, Cube Mapping
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Light reflection unit:
Phong, Cook/Torrance, BRDF*
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Vectors and boundary
edge anti-aliasing
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Maximum resolution:
1280 x 1024
DMP demonstrates ULTRAY 2000 visual processor in booth number 1005
at SIGGRAPH 2005, the 32nd International Conference on Computer Graphics & Interactive
Techniques, from July 31 to
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About DMP
Digital
Media Professionals Inc.(DMP) is the world-class leader bringing 3-D graphics
solutions to market from Japan since its founding in 2002, and is currently
developing graphics IP core based on DMP's cutting
edge 3-D graphics technology DMP Maestro Technology. (Headquarters at:
The
entry model PICA processor is attracting attention from leading manufacturers
in Asia as a graphics IP core that can be used to meet the demands of the
21st-century digital consumer market—mobile phones, game devices, navigation
systems, amusement machines such as arcade games, and embedded home appliances.
We expect the digital consumer market to grow dramatically in the near future.
DMP is a contributing member of Khronos
Group that conducts industry standardization and testing of graphics APIs
intended for embedded systems. In addition to developing products that are
compliant with OpenGL ES, DMP participates in Khronos'
working groups and actively takes part in activities for developing industry
standards.
The
company name, logo, ULTRAY, PICA, and product logos are all registered
trademarks of Digital Media Professionals Inc. Rights to other registered
trademarks or other trademarks belong to their respective owners. The terms
described herein are subject to change without notice.