{"title":"An OpenGL ES 2.0 3D graphics SoC with versatile HW/SW development support","authors":"Hsu-Kang Dow, Ching-Hua Huang, Chun-Hung Lai, K. Tsao, Sheng-Chih Tseng, Kun-Yi Wu, Ting-Hsuan Wu, Ho-Chun Yang, Da-Jing Zhang-Jian, Yun-Nan Chang, S.W. Haga, Shen-Fu Hsiao, Ing-Jer Huang, Shiann-Rong Kuang, Chung-Nan Lee","doi":"10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2015.7114496","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A multi-threaded programmable shader pipeline 3D graphics SoC with support for OpenGL ES 2.0 has been developed and fabricated. The sample chip is ARMv4T compatible with the 3D processing capability of 14.9 Mvertices/s, 3.6 Mpixels/s and up to 4K resolution. The die size is 3.85×3.85 mm2, with 2.96M gates on a TSMC 90nm CMOS 1P9M. This new SoC includes software to support OpenGL ES API libraries, GLSL compilation and simulation. The SoC also comes with various development tools, including GPU simulators for hardware validation, profile assisted compiler optimization and compiler verification. For developers, we also present a QEMU-based simulation platform and SoC Performance Monitoring Tool Suite (PMTS) to assist developers in optimizing the system and detecting performance bottlenecks.","PeriodicalId":369130,"journal":{"name":"VLSI Design, Automation and Test(VLSI-DAT)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"VLSI Design, Automation and Test(VLSI-DAT)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2015.7114496","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A multi-threaded programmable shader pipeline 3D graphics SoC with support for OpenGL ES 2.0 has been developed and fabricated. The sample chip is ARMv4T compatible with the 3D processing capability of 14.9 Mvertices/s, 3.6 Mpixels/s and up to 4K resolution. The die size is 3.85×3.85 mm2, with 2.96M gates on a TSMC 90nm CMOS 1P9M. This new SoC includes software to support OpenGL ES API libraries, GLSL compilation and simulation. The SoC also comes with various development tools, including GPU simulators for hardware validation, profile assisted compiler optimization and compiler verification. For developers, we also present a QEMU-based simulation platform and SoC Performance Monitoring Tool Suite (PMTS) to assist developers in optimizing the system and detecting performance bottlenecks.
开发并制作了一个支持OpenGL ES 2.0的多线程可编程着色器管道3D图形SoC。该样品芯片兼容ARMv4T,具有14.9 m顶点/s, 360万像素/s和高达4K分辨率的3D处理能力。芯片尺寸为3.85×3.85 mm2,在台积电90nm CMOS 1P9M上具有2.96M栅极。这个新的SoC包括支持OpenGL ES API库、GLSL编译和仿真的软件。SoC还配备了各种开发工具,包括用于硬件验证的GPU模拟器,配置文件辅助编译器优化和编译器验证。对于开发人员,我们还提供了一个基于qemu的仿真平台和SoC性能监控工具套件(PMTS),以帮助开发人员优化系统并检测性能瓶颈。