Imagination opens GPU IP to RIOS Lab collab

Author: EIS Release Date: Aug 31, 2020


Imagination has opened up select GPU IP to the RISC-V International Open Source Laboratory (RIOS Lab).

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This collaboration supports PicoRio, the first RISC-V development platform released by the RIOS Lab. It will enable the RIOS Lab to build a complete development platform and open-source ecosystem for RISC-V single-board computers.

Collaborating on the PicoRio platform enables developers, companies and the community to reduce their costs for development and validation of RISC-V, GPU and Image processing based software.

With access to Imagination’s IP, future development boards and other products developed by the RIOS Lab will include high-quality GPU display and image processing.

Along with the RIOS RISC-V CPU core, memory, and other IP, the product will provide a complete development platform with a suite of open source software.

The RIOS and Imagination’s partnership’s goal is to create an open, affordable, Linux-capable hardware platform to aid software developers collaboratively develop software for RISC-V,  PowerVR GPU and Image processing.

The RIOS Lab uses collaborative engineering from both academia and industry to elevate the RISC-V software and hardware ecosystem.

It is founded by David Patterson, a Turing Award laureate and world-renowned scientist in the field of computer architecture.