Russian mobile processor firm uses MIPS and PowerVR cores

Russian Asic firm Elvees NeoTek has taped out a mobile computing and video analytics system on chip device which is based on a PowerVR and MIPS processors from Imagination.

According to King-Smith, executive vice-president, marketing, Imagination, Elvees has technological strength in “what we see as a key and growing market, and where we feel the companies’ collaboration can make a significant impact.”

Called Elvees Image Semantic Engine (ELISE), the chip integrates IP blocks for pre-processing and post-processing of stereo video at high resolutions.

Elvees aims to compete with mobile multimedia processors from Mediatek, Freescale and Qualcomm.

On-chip there are various processors including a mobile graphics processor and a multicore standard navigation engine.

The graphics processor combines a PowerVR GX6250 GPU, a PowerVR V2500 imaging processor (ISP), a PowerVR E4500 video encoder and a PowerVR D5500 video decoder.

There is a dual-core MIPS Warrior P5602 CPU, a multi-threaded MIPS interAptiv CPU and MIPS Warrior M5150 MCU-class CPU. This level of processing capability is needed to carry out the compute-intensive video analytics applications and audio processing.

Applications include in-car, camera phones and navigation terminals to provide video analysis for augmented reality and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).

The video SoC device, which was manufactured in the TSMC 28 HPM process, makes use of Imagination’s scalable IP.

David McBrien, executive vice-president, sales and marketing at Imagination said:

“We recognise the strength of ELVEES’ know-how and leading technologies in what we see as a key and growing market, and where we feel the companies’ collaboration can make a significant impact.”

Moscow-based Elvees has also developed a 40nm mobile processor, the VIP-1 is a 1 GHz ARM Cortex A9 two-core RISC-processor, a graphics processor core and a dual-core cluster for a signal and image processor.