Imageon

China Product


Product line

This section requires expansion.

Discontinued/Past generations catv splitter

Imageon 100, the first product of the Imageon line. wireless remote control extender

Imageon 3200. uhf vhf amplifier

Imageon 2200/2250. Integrated a 2D graphics engine, a MPEG decoder, JPEG decoding and encoding capabilities, with embedded SRAM on-die as frame buffer.

Imageon 2240.

Imageon 2260/2262.

Imageon 2300. Included 2D and 3D graphics engine (3D S/W), MPEG-4 video decoder, JPEG encoding/decoding, and 2 Megapixel camera sub-system processing engine.

Imageon 2182.

Imageon 2282.

Imageon 2388/2380. Featuring industry first OpenGL for embedded systems (OpenGL ES) 1.1+ extensions support, for 3D acceleration.

Imageon 2192. For mainstream devices with support for 3.1-megapixel camera sensor.

Current generation

Imageon 2294/2298, renamed as Imageon M100 series. Current top-of-line product, processor includes DVD quality recording and playback, TV output, and supports up to a 12-megapixel camera sensor. Products include Imageon M180.

Imageon TV. Announced in February 2006, as the first Imageon product in the line featuring Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld (DVB-H) signal receiving support, allowing handhelds devices to receive digital broadcast TV (DVB-H) signals and enables watching TV programs on these devices, the chipset includes tuner, demodulator, decoder, and a full software stack.

Newest Brazilian Tectoy Console called Zeebo uses the ATI Imageon Chip to deliver fast and reliable graphics plus 3G access to download updates and new games for the console.

Announced in 2008 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, AMD renews the Imageon line with the following products:

Imageon A250 application processor

Standalone multimedia and graphics subsystem

D1 resolution video (720486)

Support for 8-megapixel camera sensor, JPEG, dual display

USB, SD and NAND support

Vector graphics

Flash applications and UI supported

Energy efficiency

Imageon D160 mobile TV solution

Free-to-air DVB-T and DVB-H reception

quality of service and Doppler compensation for DVB signals for high speed mobility

Complete DVB-T/H receiver module

Multi-channel decode with PiP, fast channel change, and video recording

AMD software stack (including Middleware) and 3rd party support

Energy efficiency

In addition to the application processor and the mobile TV solution chip, AMD also licenses several technologies to other firms and partners, such technologies include audio and graphics processors, as listed below:

Imageon M210 audio processor

Multi-band equalizer

Automatic gain control

99 db signal-to-noise ratio

Supporting over 30 codecs including

MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, AC3, DTS, MIDI with SMAF support, 3D audio, MPEG-4 SLS, FLAC

support for 3rd party codecs and other codecs through downloading

Standalone audio playback

Energy efficiency of about 33 mW allowing 100 hours of audio playback with integrated power management

Integrated memory

Integrated analog audio codec

USB 2.0, NAND, SD and Bluetooth support

Imageon Z460 3D graphics core

OpenGL ES 2.0 support

Unified shaders

Programmable vertex shaders and pixel shaders

Support for WVGA (800480, 848480, or 854480) and QHD (640360) resolutions

Claimed on par with high-end portable game consoles in terms of performance

Imageon Z180 vector graphics core

Hardware OpenVG 1.x rendering acceleration

Claimed 20-40x faster than software-based implementations

Support for HD resolution

16X antialiasing for fonts and vector graphics

Flash support for web application

Energy efficiency

Future development

Future developments to be present on or before 2009, including embedded x86 microprocessor, support for OpenVG, OpenGL for Embedded Systems 2.1 with unified shaders (VS/PS 4.0/4.1), support for higher resolution of camera sensors (5 Megapixels for mainstream and more than 12 Megapixels for high-end products), display resolution support for WVGA (800480), SVGA (800600) and XVGA (1024768) resolutions, H.264 encoding for video recording, AEC, voice recognition and 3D audio.

The Imageon TV will also feature support for ISDB-T and DMB standards, and multi-mode support (likely to support DMB-T/H, the dual standard implemented in PRC).

See also

Nvidia GoForce media co-processor and Nvidia Tegra, current and future competitors

Bitboys Gxx series media co-processors, previous competitor, acquired by ATI

Falanx series media co-processors, previous competitor, now become ARM Norway

Imagination Technologies PowerVR MBX and SGX media co-processors, IP license-based products, current competitor

Mitsubishi Z3D family media co-processors

Toshiba T4G media co-processor

References

^ "AMD Handheld Multimedia Technology Unleash The Ultimate Mobile Entertainment Experience" (PDF). AMD. 2008-02-12. pp. 17. http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/MWC08_AMD_Press_Presentation.pdf. Retrieved 2008-02-15. "~32mW Audio Subsystem for playing from SD/NAND (900mAh/3.7V battery; 150mVrms into 16 headphones." 

^ "Product fact sheet for Imagon Z460 ans Z180" (PDF). AMD. 2008-02-12. pp. 17. http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/AMD_Z180_AMD_Z460_Graphics_Fact_Sheet.pdf. Retrieved 2008-02-15. "[baseline performance] measured on ARM9 Versatile (ARM926EJ-S) at 210 MHz using a commercially available software rasterizer." 

External links

AMD Imageon

Imageon Demo

Zeeboo Console

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Chipsets

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Other ATI products and technologies

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Workstations and HPC

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Drivers and software

Catalyst  fglrx (Linux)  Hydravision  HLSL2GLSL

Multimedia and handheld

All-in-Wonder  Imageon2  Xilleon2

Video game console GPU

Flipper (GameCube)  Xenos (Xbox 360)  Hollywood (Wii)

1 Upcoming product.

2 Discontinued product.

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