Designed exclusively for embedded use, GSHARK is the right solution to best meet the challenging trade-off requirements, i.e., high performance and versatility, with small power consumption and footprint.

Features and Architecture

GSHARK-TAKUMI Family comes with the following key features and benefits.

1.GSHARK architecture - high performance and low power consumption

Continuously enhancing the lineup for embedded systems, GSHARK family offers IP cores to meet functional and performance requirements while enabling low power consumption and small gate count. The family lines up graphics IP cores for embedded systems with the concept and architecture enclosing actual use case and environment, offering higher level of performance and power consumption optimization.

2.Versatile lineup allowing the best choice for every application

GSHARK lines up application-optimized IP cores including standard-supporting 3D, vector graphics, and their hybrids as well as those with extremely low gate count enabled by introduction of optimized short list of features and functions. GSHARK also allows easier enhancements and deployments of the customer products with carefully designed compatibility by introducing common base architecture.

3.Smallest-in-class gate count

Continuously developing the roadmap with focus on embedded systems, GSHARK enables high-performing and advanced graphics rendering with small footprints in a variety of embedded system SoCs as the smallest-in-class graphics IP core family.

4.Less power consumption

Adopting design approach specializing in the smallest-in-class gate count and power consumption, GSHARK will best work in mobile devices including handsets and digital camera and camcorders.

5.High-performing and quality graphics by the hardware IP cores

GSHARK IP cores execute high load graphics processes in the hardware ultimately minimizing the CPU load to enable high-performing and advanced graphics rendering in embedded systems.

6.Conformance to the graphics standards

GSHARK supports industrial standards including OpenGL ES and OpenVG developed by the Khronos Group. Supporting the standard APIs allows friendliness to such applications as PC and smartphone, which also allows utilization of the standard-supporting middlewares and development environments, consequently saving the application development time and cost at customer's end.

7.Easier system integration

The IP cores are provided in synthesizable data for independence on the semiconductor process technologies. Interface to the customer logic also supports the industrial standards and is provided in a customizable format, allowing easier modification to the customer design asset. For example, GSHARK is easily integrated to the customer SoC interfacing the standard bus system such as AXI to the customer's original one.

IP Core Block Diagram

Executing high-load graphics processes by the hardware, the high speed real-time graphics is now a reality.

Target Applications

GSHARK can be applied to a variety of embedded systems with on-board display.