VideoCore
Sign in to savethumb|right|A Broadcom VideoCore processor powers the line of popular [[Raspberry Pi micro-computers.]] VideoCore is a series of low-power mobile multimedia processors originally developed by Alphamosaic Ltd and now owned by Broadcom. Alphamosaic marketed its first version as a two-dimensional DSP architecture that makes it flexible and efficient enough to decode (as well as encode) a number of multimedia codecs in software while maintaining low power usage. The semiconductor intellectual property core (SIP core) has been found so far only on Broadcom SoCs.
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Technical details
- Multimedia system constraints
- 3D engine
- Video compression algorithms
- VideoCore key features
- Variants
- Table of SoCs adopting VideoCore SIP blocks
- VideoCore products
- Linux support
- Compute Kernel programming
- Market competitors
- Data sources
- See also
- References
thumb|right|A Broadcom VideoCore processor powers the line of popular [[Raspberry Pi micro-computers.]] VideoCore is a series of low-power mobile multimedia processors originally developed by Alphamosaic Ltd and now owned by Broadcom. Alphamosaic marketed its first version as a two-dimensional DSP architecture that makes it flexible and efficient enough to decode (as well as encode) a number of multimedia codecs in software while maintaining low power usage. The semiconductor intellectual property core (SIP core) has been found so far only on Broadcom SoCs.
== Technical details ==
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