eVRU is a powerful vector rendering library developed by TES specifically for DSP engines offering OpenGL ES 1.1 API.

The companies say traditional multimedia architectures offering graphics capabilities need dedicated engines or hardware blocks to run the different functions within the system. However, with the MM2000 architecture, eVRU utilizes the single Ceva-X DSP core used for video/audio encode and decode as the engine for graphics rendering, without requiring any additional accelerators or dedicated hardware.

MM2000 supports a wide range of video formats including H.264, MPEG-4, VC-1, RMVB, DivX, AVS and H.263 up to D1 resolution, allowing designers complete flexibility in audio/video and 2D/3D graphics support for competitive differentiation.

According to Juergen Zeller, Vice President, Design Services & Technology at TES (Langon, France), 3D graphics processing capabilities are becoming a pre-requisite for multimedia engines targeting handheld markets.

Commenting on the deal, Eran Briman, Vice President, Corporate Marketing at Ceva said: "The partnership with TES is another important testimony for our 'all-in-software' architectural approach to multimedia. We enable our customers to handpick any number of multimedia codecs to run on their MM2000-based designs, in addition to 2D/3D graphics software. With additional functionality including cellular baseband, GPS, DVB-H and Bluetooth, capable of utilizing the DSP engine at the heart of MM2000, our solution raises the industry bar for convergence and differentiation capabilities."

The deal was announced at this week's International IC Conference in Taiwan, where Ceva also announced licensing deals for its MM2000 with Solomon Systech Ltd for its MagusCore multimedia processor range, and with Sunplus mMedia, who will develop SoCs for power sensitive applications using the MM2000.

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