Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A9 and 96 StemCell Media Processing Cores Enhance Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) Performance and Battery Life
ZiiLABS unveiled its ground-breaking 100-core ZMS-40 StemCell Media processor optimized for Android. The ZMS-40 combines 96 of ZiiLABS' StemCell media processing cores with four 1.5GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPUs to deliver stunning multi-tasking application and media processing performance.
By doubling the number of StemCell Media processors compared to the previous ZMS-20, the ZMS-40 delivers twice the peak media performance, while achieving a reduction in power consumption of up to 50 percent. With 2X the performance and 2X the power efficiency, the ZMS-40 delivers ground-breaking media capabilities to handheld devices such as tablets, including ultra-high-resolution H.264 HP decoding of up to 3840 × 1080 for true 1080p 3D stereo, 2560 × 1600 (WQXGA) display resolution support, higher-quality video encoding and immersive OpenGL ES graphics and future support for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC).
The up-and-coming HEVC standard (also known as H.265), besides other qualitative benefits, can also increase data compression ratio by up to 2X as compared to H.264. HEVC claims to target the next generation Hi-Def TV market which can support scalable resolutions from 320 × 240 to 1080p with improved picture quality in terms of noise level, color and dynamic range, and all the way up to an incredible resolution of 7680 × 4320. Being fully programmable and with their massive parallelism, the 96 cores of StemCell Media processors can easily handle the onerous computational requirements of this new CODEC and support higher resolutions that are beyond today's display systems.
The ZMS-40 supports ZiiLABS' enhanced Android 4.0 implementation that complements the standard Android offering with a rich suite of software to exploit the massive computing power of the ZMS processor.
ZMS-40 Differentiating Features
- Quad 1.5 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 MP Cores
- 96x fully-programmable StemCell Media Processing cores
- 58 GFlops StemCell compute power
- Wide range of accelerated video codecs including HEVC, H.264, VC1 and WebM (VP8)
- True 1920 × 1080p 3D stereo playback (3840 × 1080)
- Double the CPU performance for enhanced multi-tasking
- Double the Graphics and Media performance
- Half the power consumption for longer battery life
- Support for ZiiLABS enhanced Android 4.0 implementation
- 2560 × 1600 (WQXGA) resolution support for next-generation LCDs and Displays
ZMS-40 Key Features
- High-Definition, low-latency video conferencing
- Optimised OpenGL ES 2.0 for robust 3D graphics acceleration
- Accelerated OpenCL 1.1 integrated into Android NDK
- High Dynamic Range (HDR) Image Processing
- High-quality Text-to-Speech and Voice Recognition
- Integrated HDMI 1.4 with 3D stereo support
- 2GB addressable memory
- DDR2/3 at 533 MHz
- LPDDR2 for maximum memory bandwidth and low-power
- 64-bit wide memory bus
- Quad independent video controllers supporting 24-bit displays and cameras
- 3V3 and 1V8 I/O's reduce peripheral power consumption
- Dual USB 2.0 HS OTG (Host/Peripheral) controllers with PHY for low system cost
- Three independent SDIO/MMC controllers
- Extended battery life with robust Dynamic Power Management and Instantaneous On
- Enhanced Security: 256-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) and TrustZone
