Imagination Technologies Group plc has announced a forthcoming series of embedded processors under the name “Meta Connected Processor” intended to support Internet-connectivity in low-cost consumer products.
The family of cores will combine versions of Imagination’s 32-bit Meta multithreaded processor and Ensigma programmable communications technologies. The combination is already used in consumer broadcast applications, thereby combining the Internet and Internet radio with DAB radio. The Meta Connected Processors will allow the same benefits to be extended to products such as digital photo-frames, media players, printers, toys and connected cameras, Imagination said. The combination IP allows multi-standard connectivity, alongside a Linux- or RTOS-based applications environment as well as DSP-intensive algorithm execution.
