About two weeks ago, the company Creative, in recent years, not so often surprised the public zaintrigovala of launching a new Web site on the secret project called Zii (pronounced z-i-s). Some were inclined to ensure that this is just another Zii audioprotsessor. The most far-sighted as observers immediately smeknuli that Creative is preparing something much more ambitious and interesting. The intrigue lasted until the opening of the exhibition Consumer Electronics Show 2009. In Las Vegas Creative announced the formation on the basis of the new venture 3DLABS ZiiLABS and officially presented its first product - Zii. Note 3DLABS company was bought in 2002, Creative has behind him a solid 25-year experience in the development of programmable graphics, media chips and processing applications. Creative tried to draw a parallel between the new concept and the organic world. Zii - a platform, which opens in the computer world a new era of StemCell Computing. Creative Professionals believe that they have managed to create a silicon analog of stem cells, miniature chip, which provides incredible flexibility in the construction of electronic devices, maximizing scalability and excellent energy efficiency. As of the stem cells can grow any cell, and based on the new chips Creative can build virtually any modern computing devices, developers are confident. As part of Zii odnokristalnaya chip was developed by the type of SoC (System-on-Chip) ZMS-05. The architecture of the chip uses an array of media-optimized programmable computing elements (Processing Elements, PE), representing the equivalent of stem cells that can develop quickly in specialized functions required by modern multimedia devices. ZMS Scalable architecture allows theoretically bring an unlimited number of circuit chips. Creative drawing prospect of petaflopsnoy computer Zii Hypercomputer, which would be in a compact 100 times, 100 times of energy-efficient and 100 times cheaper than traditional supercomputers. Chip ZMS-05 combines an array of media-processing of data, two ARM core and a large set of integrated peripheral controllers. For system integrators, software developers, OEM/ODM-producers are also invited to set the developer, including the SDK and the testing fee ZMS-05 Evaluation Module. Loud statements Creative impressive, but whether Zii embody the promised revolution ? This will show the first commercial products based on the new platform. Creative believes that Zii successfully find use in portable media players, MID, browser, video conferencing systems, video surveillance systems, automotive electronics, smartphones and PDAs, embedded systems and other areas. On the technical side the new chip, Creative looks like this:
Two kernel ARM926 EJ-S;
Support to encode/decode video format 720p;
Integrated analog TV encoder with support for video 1080p;
Support for multiple media formats and codecs, including MP3, AAC, WMA, Ogg, MPEG 1/2/4, WMV/VC-1, H. 264;
3D-graphics:Support for OpenGL ES 1. 1 and 2. 0, speed texturing tekseley 42 million per second, handling 21 million pixels per second vertex;
Computing power:8 Gflops;
The carrying capacity of memory:2, 6 Gb/s
An array of media-processing of data:PE-24 element in the three groups, SIMD-architecture, the hierarchical system of cache memory, an independent frequency and voltage scaling;
Memory Interface:Mobile SDR, DDR, DDR2, the frequency of 166/266 MHz bus width of 32 or 64 bits;
power consumption when playing a 720p video signal with a sweep of 30/s and audio format AAC:less than 300 mW;
Corps :464-pin BGA (15x15 mm).
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