The Watford, England-based company is touting the third generation of its Ensigma UCC series architecture and UCCP310 IP platform. The multi-standard communications IP cores gain transmit, diversity, multi-context features, adding connectivity standards starting with W-iFi.

Imagination claims the UCCP310 is the first IP platform to offer both connectivity and an array of the latest broadcast standards in one core, and is available for licensing now.

It builds on the company's UCC receiver architecture, which has shipped in over 10 million units in the digital radio, TV and mobile TV markets, and ups the ante with the addition of a transmit path with programmable modulation, enabling full 802.11a/b/g WiFi, and other connectivity standards, to be implemented on the one core alongside all the latest broadcast TV (including emerging Chinese and US standards), mobile TV and radio standards.

Imagination says that with the addition of a programmable transmit path, end product developers and chipset and SoC designers now have a universal communications solution that can be dynamically reconfigured using software to support the widest range of communications channels, minimising bill of materials (BoM) and SKUs while ensuring maximum reconfigurability for global operation over the widest portfolio of broadcast and connectivity standards.

Meanwhile, Imagination said it has already started shipping to selected customers its PowerVR FRC270, a low silicon-area IP core for motion compensated, 240Hz frame rate conversion that it says sets a new bar in quality and performance per square millimetre.

Combined with customer IP, or PowerVR VXD, VXE and I2P cores from Imagination, FRC270 enables SoC designers to implement a complete solution on a single device, replacing the multiple separate chips usually required for FRC, video decode and de-interlacing.

The device is said to solve the key issues of motion judder, motion blur, and low frame rates, on the latest range of HD flat panel displays.

The core is capable of converting both SD and HD material up to frame rates of 240Hz, generating 1080p 240fps material to be displayed on the latest panels to support Full HD at 240Hz.

Imagination has also added the PowerVR SGX543 to the range, a graphics processor IP core based on the extended Series5XT architecture, which enables higher performance SGX cores and multi-processor support.

The SGX543 is available in both single core and multi-processor solutions.

Imagination said it would release full details of the SGX543s multi-processor capabilities at Multicore Expo 2009 in March.

The part is said to deliver real-world performance of 35 million polygons/sec and 1 Gpixels/sec fill rate at 200MHz, and capable of driving HD screens with ultra smooth high definition 3D graphics. The fill rate assumes a scene depth complexity of x2.5.

Tony King-Smith, VP marketing Imagination Technologies commented: "With PowerVR SGX543 Imagination continues to extend its leadership and dominance of the embedded graphics acceleration market with a solution capable of delivering blistering 3D, 2D and vector graphics. The Series5XT architecture enables us to continue to extend our dominance in mobile and embedded graphics solutions by addressing the rapidly growing demands for high performance graphics in a wide range of market segments."

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