User:Pinchies/MediaQ

MediaQ was a producer of graphic display driver chips used primarily in PDA's and other mobile devices. They were later bought out by NVIDIA, and rebranded as GoForce.

Company History
MediaQ was founded in 1997 by Ramesh Singh and Ignatius Tjandrasuwita, previous employees of S3 Graphics.

MediaQ ICs were intended for use in low-power handheld devices, designed primarily for use in Palm OS and WinCE PDA's and handheld computers. The general function of these chips was to handle graphics processing and screen update duties independent of the CPU. This reduces the processing burden on the main CPU, increasing both performance and battery life overall. Later models added additional capabilities, such as 2D graphics processing, and peripheral management, becoming analogous in function to a chipset on a computer motherboard. While the team stated in 2000 that they were not interested in being bought out, MediaQ was later bought by NVIDIA in August 2003, and the technology was integrated into the GoForce line of mobile graphics processors.

MQ-100
MQ-100 was the company's first product, with development supported by NEC/Renesas, who adopted the product in their WinCE MobilePro handhelds. These chips were primarily graphics frame-buffers, that provided a continuous image to the LCD screen, freeing the main CPU to work on other tasks, or go to a low power state at idle.

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http://www.hitachi.co.jp/New/cnews/9810/1019.html

MQ-200
Their second generation product, the MQ-200, was additionally used in Nokia and Siemens mobile devices. Over 300,000 chips were sold. 128-bit graphics display controller with 2 Mbytes of embedded DRAM. 0.25-micron lithography, $28

http://www.fab7.com/mediaq/news/body.html https://www.edn.com/design/consumer/4362907/Getting-glitzy-with-graphics-for-embedded-systems

https://www.edn.com/electronics-news/4152501/Applied-Data-Systems-Introduces-the-Tandem

https://www.edn.com/electronics-products/other/4362718/Mobile-graphics-accelerators-balance-performance-power?layout=article&articleid=CA56705&pubdate=4/1/99

MQ-1100 Series
MQ-1100 and MQ-1132 were launched Dec 8th 2000, designed to provide support for Palm OS and Windows CE devices. As well as providing a graphics frame-buffer with 256KB cache, they also included a simple 2D graphics processing engine. The new chipset could also act as a communications buffer for USB and other peripherals.

MQ1100 in Clie N760 - http://www.pspilot.de/ppp760/ppp760.html

MQ1168 in Clie NR70V - http://www.pspilot.de/pppnr70/pppnr70.html " The MQ-1132 is the first chip to bring full Graphics acceleration capabilities to the small form factor market segment. The sophisticated applications for today's PDA's demand improved performance without compromising the system power budgets. The MQ-1132 incorporates a full 64-bit Graphics engine and embeds 256 KB of SRAM. This combination not only improves the applications Graphics performance but also reduces the system power consumption.

MediaQ's MQ-1132 Platform Controller The MQ-1132 platform controller redefines the end-user experience on low-power handheld systems and smart phones. Enabling compelling end-user applications and services, the MQ-1000 family offloads graphic, video and input/output tasks from the system CPU to boost system performance and reduce energy consumption. It is the industry's first product family to combine dedicated hardware engines for graphics and video, embedded memory, and a variety of peripheral interfaces for connectivity and storage.

The MQ-1000 controllers feature DynamicQ power management, power-efficient accelerator engines, and wide internal buses to low-power embedded memory. This combination of power saving features significantly reduces energy consumption in both operational and power-down modes. The MQ-1132 features integrated interfaces and controllers for a wide range of peripherals, allowing connectivity with digital cameras, data storage products, and Bluetooth-enabled devices. The chip includes USB Host and Device interfaces, I2S Audio interface and Serial Peripheral Interface, and 32-bit PCI interface. " ref nvidia link toshiba August 7, 2002

https://au.ign.com/articles/2002/08/07/mediaq-on-the-fast-track

http://www.fab7.com/mediaq/news/body2.10.html

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=yQEAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=MQ-1100+mediaq&source=bl&ots=yUWC3Wki6H&sig=ACfU3U2ulru_FvH3ILcZKdyQyln_ASlKmg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjMucTUvPHkAhXNfSsKHVXZDOcQ6AEwA3oECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=MQ-1100%20mediaq&f=false

http://www.fab7.com/mediaq/MQ1132-VR4121EC_h.html

See Also: NeoMagic

MQ-1168
"The MQ-1168 is the second-generation product in the MQ-11xx series from MediaQTM. This device provides rich video and audio functions in addition to high-performance graphics and high-speed peripherals enabling mobile device OEMs to deliver true multimedia experience. The MQ-1168 also extends the storage and I/O mechanism by supporting the popular Secure Digital I/O interface.

The MQ-1168 supports a flexible CPU interface, integrates a 64-bit 2D graphics engine, Stretch BLT engine with color space converter for video processing, LCD display interface, dedicated Video Input Module, Secure Digital I/O interface (SDIO), Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI), AC-97/ I2S audio and USB controllers (function and host) on a single chip. This device provides OEMs the flexibility to create products based on performance and power consumption requirements and is ideally suited for mobile, networked platforms such as Personal Digital Assistants, Smart Phone and Mobile Appliances. "

"MediaQ's MQ-1168 Multimedia Platform Controller combines true multimedia capabilities, low power consumption, and a rich set of peripheral interfaces for connectivity and storage. End-users of PDAs, Smart Phones, and other mobile devices benefit from faster system performance, higher quality audio and video playback, and extended battery life.

The MQ-1168 is the first chip to completely offload memory-intensive multimedia and peripheral operations from the CPU, resulting in higher performance and lower power consumption. To further enhance multimedia performance, MQ-1168 features Hardware Accelerated Resource Engines (HARE) dedicated to video and graphics functions. These specialized engines are specifically designed for small footprint, battery-operated devices.

Hardware Accelerated 2D Graphics and Multimedia Processing

MQ-1168 makes video capture and playback a reality for handheld devices with a built-in video input module, a dedicated 8-bit video input port, and a video engine called StretchBLT. Any CCIR656-compliant video -- either from the dedicated video input port or from the CPU -- can now be handled in hardware. The MQ-1168 performs advanced functions like color space conversion and image scaling in hardware, which otherwise would tie up the entire CPU if executed in software. MQ-1168 also features a 64-bit accelerated 2D graphics engine that supports the 256 ROP (Raster Operations) as defined by Microsoft. Most of the drawing functions are hardware accelerated, including BitBLT, Bresenham line draw, panning and scrolling, pattern fills, and transparencies. " REF: sanyo link below

" The MediaQ MQ-1168 Multimedia Platform Controller makes video capture and playback a reality for handheld devices with a built-in video input module, a dedicated 8-bit video input port, and a video engine called StretchBLT. Any CCIR656-compliant video -- either from the dedicated video input port or from the CPU -- can now be handled in hardware. The MQ-1168 performs advanced functions like color space conversion and image scaling in hardware, which otherwise would tie up the entire CPU if executed in software. "

MQ-1178 & MQ-1188
https://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_9211.html https://archive.eetasia.com/www.eetasia.com/ART_8800286819_1034362_NP_aa7bd5f6.HTM https://fccid.io/O9NFALCON4220/User-Manual/User-Manual-424839

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1200275 https://www.infineon.com/cms/de/about-infineon/press/press-releases/2003/131303.html

"MediaQ MQ-1188: graphics chip for PDA and cell phones

Hot on the heels left by the ATI IMAGEON 3200 chip is another graphic chip for mobile devices, the MediaQ MQ-1188 Multimedia Platform Controller. MediaQ MQ-1188: graphics chip for PDA and cell phones

The MQ-1188 operates at a frequency of 66 MHz, which is twice as much as previous versions of the MediaQ chips, equipped with a 64-bit 2D engine, a USB 1.1 port controller and an SDIO (Secure Digital IO) interface that supports 12 Mb data transfer rate /from. In addition, the MQ-1188 has a video input port, which uses a considerable number of CMOS and CCD cameras that connect or are built into cell phones.

The chip has built-in algorithms for video recording and rendering, processing MPEG4 streams or video data directly from the camera, it is possible to create up to 256 thousand color shades using halftones and smoothing, converting a monochrome image into color and vice versa, and so on.

The chip supports Windows CE / Pocket PC and Palm OS operatin systems and is designed to work with Intel StrongARM / XScale and Motorola Dragonball processors. " source: https://www.ixbt.com/news/hard/index.shtml?00/96/14

MQ-2074
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1228150 http://www.fab7.com/mediaq/products/securedocs/MQ2074-PCIUG.pdf http://www.fab7.com/mediaq/products/securedocs/MQ2074PB.pdf

MQ-2100
https://www.edn.com/electronics-products/other/4332912/Accelerator-makes-cell-phones-snappy https://m.eet.com/media/1136963/282643f1.pdf

Implementations
MediaQ chipsets were used in a wide range of devices. A selection of known devices is listed below:


 * Sony CLIÉ NX70V: MQ1168
 * Toshiba e310: MQ1132
 * Palm M130: MQXXXX
 * HP iPAQ 5450: MediaQ 1100
 * SANYO CCD Camera: MQ1168

TO READ https://www.siliconindia.com/magazine_articles/Small-Package-Big-Promises-XKY588778305.html https://www.forbes.com/1999/06/30/feat.html#61ea96141240

https://patents.google.com/patent/US7123212B2/en search: MediaQ's Katana

check left news list for more sources http://www.fab7.com/mediaq/news/index2.html https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://gurensixue.blogspot.com/2007/03/ppc.html&prev=search https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://tech.sina.com.cn/mobile/n/2007-03-11/0005261065.shtml&prev=search

= See Also =
 * Imageon - Competing mobile graphics chipset from ATI.
 * GoForce - The successor technology after MediaQ was bought by NVIDIA
 * Intel 2700G - Competing mobile GPU co-processor.

= References =