Renesas, Imagination extend graphic tech licenses

Renesas Electronics Corp. has extended and signed more multi-use graphics technology licence deals with Imagination Technologies Group that it says it will deploy in its future system on-chip (SoC) designs for the mobile, consumer and automotive markets.

Imagination makes multimedia IP cores for graphics, video and display processing.

Under the agreement, Imagination will receive licence fees and royalty revenues on shipment of Renesas' SoC designs using technologies from the multimedia and communication company.

The licence agreements involve Imagination's POWERVR SGX Series5XT IP core family. Series5XT SGX cores are based on a second-generation Universal Scalable Shader Engine (USSE2) that are said to deliver higher processing throughput than the earlier Series5 USSE shader engine.