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Myriad 1 MA1101
General Info
Designer	Movidius
Manufacturer	TSMC
Model Number	MA1101
Market	Embedded, Mobile
Introduction	2009 (announced) 2010 (launched)
General Specs
Family	Myriad
Series	1
Frequency	180 MHz
Microarchitecture
ISA	SPARC V8 (SPARC), SHAVE (SHAVE)
Microarchitecture	LEON3, SHAVE v2.0
Process	65 nm
Technology	TSMC
Word Size	32 bit
Cores	9
Threads	9
Electrical
Vcore	1.2 V
VI/O	2.5 V

Myriad 1 MA1101 was a vision processing accelerator designed by Movidius and introduced in 2010 designed to serve as an advanced real-time video editing accelerator for smartphones. The MA1101 is an identical variant of the MA1100 but had added compatibility for Android OS.

Overview

Multimedia

The MA1101 is a vision accelerator designed to work alongside a main host processors, typically in a mobile or embedded device. The chip itself independently communicates with the camera input and does the processing internally.

The MA1101 consists of a single SPARC V8 LEON3 core which is used for management and control and eight SHAVE v2.0 core which are the workhorse of this chip. Each core has 128 KiB of cache. The eight SHAVE cores together are capable of 20GFLOPS of processing power at just a few 100s milliwatt of power.

Video Decoding

Hardware Accelerated Video Capabilities
Codec	Profiles	Resolutions
MPEG-2 (H.262)	Main	1920x1080 interlaced, up to 15 Mbits/s
MPEG-4 AVC (H.264)	Baseline	(QVGA) 320x240

• Aspect Ratio: 4:3 or 16:9
• Video Enhancements
  • High Quality Upsampling: Up to WVGA (480x854) and XGA (1024x768)
  • High Quality Downsampling: Up to WVGA (480x854) and XGA (1024x768)
• Frame rate enhancement: from 15fps to 30fps

Extensions

• Host Memory Bus (master and slave): 8-bit / 16-bit / 32-bit
• Video Output Formats:
  • 8-24 bit RGB, CPU (Intel/Motorola), BT656 ...
  • 24bpp, 16M colors, resolutions up to 2048x2048
  • Video support for 4 layers of video and graphics
• External TV Support
  • Video Output to External HDMI Driver Chip
• Multiple I2S (Master/Slave) stereo audio channels
  • Independent sampling frequencies
• Standard interfaces
  • I2C, UART, SDIO, SPI
• Configurable bidirectional GPIO lanes