About MIPS processors

Imagination’s family of MIPS processors are ideal for products where ultra low-power, compact silicon area and a high level of integration are required. MIPS processor IP cores and architectures range from tiny 32-bit microcontrollers to 32-bit and 64-bit multi-core solutions for advanced application and network processing platforms.

Based on a heritage built and continuously innovated over more than three decades, Imagination’s MIPS architecture is the industry’s most efficient RISC architecture, delivering the best performance and lowest power consumption in a given silicon area. SoC designers can use this efficiency advantage for significant cost and power savings, or to implement additional cores to deliver a performance advantage in the same power, thermal and area budget.

The CPU IP cores comprising the MIPS Series5 ‘Warrior’ family will come in three classes of performance and features:

• ‘Warrior M-class’: entry-level MIPS cores for embedded and microcontroller applications, a progression from the popular microAptiv family
• ‘Warrior I-class’: mid-range, feature-rich MIPS CPUs following on from the highly-efficient interAptiv family
• ‘Warrior P-class’: high-performance MIPS processors building on the award-winning proAptiv family

Editor’s Notes

Performance metrics based on preliminary P5600 core RTL as well as proAptiv core using gcc 4.9.0 compiler; comparisons based on publicly available information from ARM, CoreMark scores from EEMBC CoreMark website, and material available on the Internet

Comparison based on publicly available information from Samsung’s ISSCC presentation on its Exynos 5 Octa

TSMC 28nm process

About Imagination Technologies

Imagination Technologies - a global leader in multimedia, processor, communication and cloud technologies - creates and licenses market-leading processor solutions including graphics, video, vision, CPU and embedded processing, multi-standard communications, cross-platform V.VoIP and VoLTE and cloud connectivity. These silicon and software intellectual property (IP) solutions for systems-on-chip (SoC) are complemented by an extensive portfolio of software, tools and ecosystems. Target markets include mobile phone, connected home consumer, mobile and tablet computing, in-car electronics, networking, telecoms, health, smart energy and connected sensors. Imagination’s licensees include many of the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturers, network operators and OEM/ODMs. Corporate headquarters are located in the United Kingdom, with sales and R&D offices worldwide. See:  www.imgtec.com.   


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