Description
The mainstream smartphone and tablet markets are large and diverse. While ARM is widely known for its CPU cores, the company also ships a very large number of graphic processing unit (GPU) cores as well. In addition to the GPU, in 2013 ARM expanded their Mali family of products to include video and display processors. In this paper we review the three new main multimedia IP blocks from ARM: 3D graphics (Mali-T8x0), UHD video (Mali-V550), and 2D display processing (Mali-DP550). ARM offers a number of technologies in its multimedia IP cores to reduce unnecessary processing and reduce memory bandwidth requirements, which save power and improve performance. The entire Mali platform works better together than the individual blocks by utilizing the new bandwidth efficient technologies across the new platform.
