ZiiLABS ZMS-05 Processor

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At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (16th-19th February, 2009), ZiiLABS demonstrated its Android Platform, including HD video playback on the ZMS-05 media-rich processor.

“Android provides an excellent platform for enabling next-generation OEM devices based on our ZMS processors and platforms,” said Tim Lewis, director of marketing, ZiiLABS. “Last month at the Consumer Electronics Show we launched the ZMS-05 based upon our StemCell Computing architecture. We are now expanding support beyond our existing SDK to anyone who wishes to leverage the Android platform.”

The Company expects to release its Android platform to OEM partners during the summer of 2009.

Media-Rich Applications Processor
The ZMS-05 is a fully programmable, media-rich application processors capable of delivering high-performance application, graphics and multimedia capabilities within a low-power environment. The ZMS-05 multi-core design combines a flexible media processing array with dual ARM cores to achieve a fully balanced system for delivering the optimal acceleration of CPU and media-intensive tasks. A broad range of I/Os and peripheral functions are integrated on-chip to ease system design and reduce BoM costs.

In addition, a rich suite of Hardware platforms, Middleware and SDKs harness the power and flexibility of ZMS-05's processor and enable OEMs, ODMs, System Integrators and Software Developers to deliver unrivalled media rich products across a broad range of consumer and embedded markets.

ZMS-05 Block Diagram

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Features and Specification

• Flexible Media Processing
  
  • High compute density SIMD architecture ideally suited for media processing tasks
  • Accelerate a wide range of current and emerging standards
  • Ideally suited to video, imaging, 2D/3D graphics, audio and signal processing
  • Offloads the CPU from intensive media tasks
  • Integer and IEEE 32-bit and 16-bit floats
  
  
  
• Dual ARM processor cores
  
  • Dual ARM926 EJ-S
  • Scalable system performance
  • Optimal power management
  
  
  
• High-Definition Video
  
  • High resolution 720p decode and encode
  • Wide range of video codecs, including;
  • - H.264, MPEG 1/2/4, WMV/VC-1 and others
  • Integrated HD 1080p analog TV encoder
  
  
  
• High-Fidelity Audio
  
  • High quality audio encode and decode
  • Wide range of audio codecs including;
  • - MP3, AAC, WMA, AAC, Ogg Vobis and others
  • Special effects
  
  
  
• High Quality Imaging Processing
  
  • Software Defined Imaging Pipeline
  • High quality imaging from low cost sensors
  
  
  
• High Quality 2D/3D Graphics
  
  • 2D graphics acceleration
  • Powerful floating-point 3D graphics
  • Supports OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0
  • Advanced UI features and experiences
  
  
  
• Ultra-Low Power consumption
  
  • Low power archiecture
  • Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling
  • Multiple clock domains and clock gating
  • 16 independent power down regions
  • Suspend to RAM for standby
  
  
  
• High Level System Integration
  
  • USB 2.0 OTG controller
  • Analog HD TV encoder
  • Three independent video I/O ports (upto 24-bit)
  • Three SDIO/MMC controllers
  • I2C
  • I2S
  • UARTs
  • GPIOs
  • Hi-speed serial
  • SPDIF
  • General - supporting NAND/NOR flash, IDE, Ethernet, PLLs and RTC
  
  
  
• Memory Interfaces
  
  • Mobile SDR, DDR and DDR2
  • x32 and x64 data bus
  • 166/266MHz
  • 1Gbyte address space
  
  
  
• Performance
  
  • MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 HD decode
    
    • - Main profile at 30 fps, 8mbps bitstream
  • 3D Graphics (OpenGL ES)
    
    • - 42M textured pixels/sec, 21M vertices/sec
  • Compute
    
    • - 8GFLOPS, 32GOPS
  • Memory bandwidth
    
    • - 2.6 GBytes/sec