Langen and Nürnberg, March 3rd 2009: Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME) is pleased to announce the expansion of its graphics controllers family with the MB86298 ‘Ruby’ – a highly integrated high-end graphics processing unit (GPU) specified for OpenGL® ES 2.0 targeting embedded automotive and industrial display systems.

The feature set and performance of the MB86298 targets in-car applications such as dashboard systems (hybrid/virtual), head-up displays, navigation systems and rear-seat entertainment applications providing OpenGL ES 2.0/OpenVGTM 1.0 functionality.

Designed in 90nm technology, the MB86298 provides high-performance 3D-rendering functions. Like its successful predecessors, this chip is designed for applications using an overlay of computer graphics and Video data. The rendering engine incorporates a programmable unified shader architecture to align with the OpenGL ES 2.0 standard for user-specific operations on vertices and fragments. The pipeline structure in the integrated shader unit is configurable to use high-level geometry, colour and lighting algorithms for full-scene anti-aliased (FSAA) image generation.

The integrated video capture module interfaces to four parallel external devices providing ITU-R BT 601/656, DRGB 888 (up to 1280 pixel horizontal resolution) and SMTPE 296M format data. Frame rate conversion, colour conversion, up-scaling, down-scaling and adaptive de-interlacing functions are also supplied by the capture module.

With its state-of-the-art host and memory interfaces, the MB86298 ‘Ruby’ provides the necessary bandwidth for data throughput required for next generation high-end graphics applications. The host link is a full-duplex PCIe interface that can be connected to a big or little-endian CPU.

The dual-display output unit can be freely programmed to support display panels with resolutions up to 1400 x 1050 pixels (or widescreens up to 1600 x 600 pixels) and provides enhanced functions such as gamma correction and dithering for colour adjustment, depending on specific display requirements. The unit also offers support for dual-view displays enabling applications such as in-car head-units with different information visible for the driver and passenger on the same screen.

Fast access to the graphics memory is provided by the integrated memory controller. Up to 512MB of external DDR2 800 memory can be addressed using a 64-bit or 32-bit interface bus.

The integrated spread spectrum clock generator (SSCG) unit ensures reduced electromagnetic interference (EMI) using minimal clock modulation.

The chip is supplied in a TEBGA543 package, thermally enhanced to provide improved heat-spreading to the environment compared with a plastic BGA package.

The built-in JTAG interface (compliant to IEEE 1149.1) is a boundary scan test interface used for checking the reliability of the chip when mounted on the PCB.

The MB86298 will be qualified according to automotive quality level AECQ100 for an extended temperature range of -40 to +85°C.

Availability

Sample quantities of MB86298 ‘Ruby’ will be available from Q2 2009. A dedicated evaluation board, software drivers for QNX, Linux and Windows and sample programs will also be offered in this timeframe.

Key Features

System:

· PCI Express® host interface (1 lane TX/RX) – requester and completer functionality, big/little-endian swapping

· 32/64-bit DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz graphics memory interface, maximum data-rate of 6.4 bytes/sec

· External interrupt output

· I2C master functionality

· GPIO: 8-pins with edge detection interrupts

· Spread-spectrum clock generation

· IEEE 1149.1 compliant JTAG interface for boundary scan test

Graphics:

· Programmable OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration

· Full hardware support of ROP2 and ROP3 raster operations

· Operations by separate hardware unit (PixBlt unit) with FSAA and high-performance copy and blend blit

Display Output:

· Output up to four displays

· Dual-view display support

· Eight layers of overlay per display controller, four alpha planes, constant alpha value

· Dither and gamma correction

Video Capture Inputs:

· Four video capture inputs

· Supported video input resolutions: ITU-R BT 601/656, DRGB 888 (up to 1280 pixel horizontal resolution) and SMTPE 296M (1280×720/60p, 1280×720/59.94p, 1280×720/50p)

· Scaling, colour conversion, frame rate conversion, adaptive de-interlacing

· Brightness, contrast, saturation control for video data

· IEEE 1149.1 compliant JTAG interface for boundary scan test

· Video texturing Technology:

· 90nm CMOSPower supply voltage: (IO: 3.3 ±0.3V and core: 1.2 ±0.1V and DDR2: 1.8 ±0.1V)

Package:

· TEBGA543 package

· Extended temperature range of -40 to +85°C

· AECQ100 qualification

About Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe

Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME) is a major supplier of semiconductor products. The company provides advanced systems solutions to the automotive, digital TV, mobile telephony, networking and industrial markets. Engineers from design centres dedicated to microcontrollers, graphics controllers, mixed-signal, Wireless, multimedia ICs, ASIC products and software development, work closely with FME’s marketing and sales teams throughout EMEA to help satisfy customers’ systems development requirements. This solutions approach is supported by a broad range of advanced semiconductor devices, IP, building blocks and software.

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