Imagination, Renesas sign multi-use license deal

LONDON, UK: A multi-use license agreement has been signed between multimedia processor core licensor Imagination Technologies Group plc and Renesas Electronics Corp. for a multiprocessor core version of PowerVR SGX Series5XT.

Imagination said that Renesas is ready to utilize the technology in future system-on-chip (SoC) designs for the mobile market.

Imagination is prepared to obtain license fees and royalties on shipments of SoCs incorporating Imagination's IP, though the company did not specify absolute values of percentage rates.

The PowerVR SGX Series5XT graphics processing unit (GPU) IP core family features performance enhancements above the customary SGX Series5 architecture.

The entire Series5XT SGX cores are based on a second-generation Universal Scalable Shader Engine (USSE2) that delivers considerably higher processing throughput than the previous Series5 USSE shader engine, in addition to other architectural extensions enabling low-power and high-performance for 2D, 3D and common use processing in either single core or scalable multi-processor solutions.