A Low-Power Multimedia SoC with Fully Programmable 3D Graphics for Mobile Devices

Abstract

Unifying vertex and pixel shading on a single chip is the basis of a fully programmable 3D graphics pipeline integrated with an MPEG4/JPEG codec and H. 264 decoder SoC for mobile devices. The 6.4 x 6.4 mm SoC consumes less than 195 mW at 1.2 V and 100 MHz for 3D graphics applications.