Understanding graphics IP cores

What is an IP core?

Digital devices contain a component known as an integrated circuit, which is sometimes referred to as an “LSI.” This LSI integrates complex circuit elements in a single small semiconductor chip.“IP core” refers to a partial circuit information module in the LSI configuration that is devoted to a particular function. In other words an “X IP core” is an IP core that has been specialized for function X. (Examples include video processing IP cores and image processing IP cores.)

DMP’s graphics IP cores

DMP provides component IP cores that have been specialized for graphics. DMP’s graphics IP cores are the fruit of DMP’s technology for rendering LCD displays faster and more attractively.

DMP’s technology helps make digital devices smaller and more energy efficient

DMP’s graphics IP cores help lower power consumption at the system level by reducing memory bandwidth and reducing the size of content. This technology comes into its own in embedded devices with restrictions on memory capacity and power consumption, such as mobile phones, digital cameras, game consoles and amusement machines.

Peeking inside an integrated circuit (LSI)…

Functions are written up using a hardware design language, and then the product is made possible by writing this design as a pattern on an LSI chip .		A tiny LSI, smaller than the fingernail on your little finger, can control a mobile phone or a digital camera. The program that runs a digital device can be condensed into a single chip.
		LSIs contain even smaller module components known as IP cores.The technology that DMP provides is mainly focused on the “graphics IP core” that is responsible for the graphics rendering functions that take up a major part of embedded semiconductor chips.