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News Release from: Imagination Technologies | Subject: PowerVR MBX SDK
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 November 2005
Toolset makes the most of mobile
graphics
Imagination Technologies has announced its latest SDK and toolset for PowerVR MBX content development.
Imagination Technologies has announced its latest SDK and toolset for PowerVR MBX content development This latest public PowerVR MBX SDK adds support for Symbian OS, the operating system that powers many of today's most popular smartphones
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 Sep 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The public SDK enables OpenGL ES 1.x application development for PowerVR MBX enabled mobile devices across a wide range of OS including Windows PC emulation, PocketPC (including the Dell Axim X50v/X51v), Symbian (Version 8.1 and 9.1) and Linux (2.4 and 2.6 Kernels).
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Says David McBrien, VP Business Development, Imagination Technologies: "Our public SDKs enable developers, professionals and enthusiasts alike, to actively create content using PowerVR MBX technology".
"The latest in our series of public PowerVR SDK releases increases the platforms supported with the significant inclusion of Symbian OS".
"The great strength of our SDK is a comprehensive developer's toolset, which is the rocket-fuel behind content enablement for PowerVR MBX devices".
Tools in the latest PowerVR SDK include: a comprehensive model exporter; exemplar demos; PowerVR Texture compressor and compression library; a 3D Studio Max exporter; VGP Vertex Program compiler with detailed performance information (clock cycle counts); and an extensive tools library (including fixed/float point maths, matrix and vertex maths, tangent space calculation, geometry import, software bounding box/transform library, print3D for rendering 2D text on-screen, and texture utilities).
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