Product category:
Intellectual Property Cores
News Release from: LSI Europe | Subject: Zevio
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 22 March 2006
Home edutainment system gains 3D
graphics
VTech's V.Flash home edutainment system is the first consumer electronics product to use the recently announced Zevio application processor architecture.
VTech's V.Flash home edutainment system is the first consumer electronics product to use the recently announced Zevio application processor architecture The Zevio architecture and 3D graphics technology, codeveloped by LSI Logic and Koto, are enabling VTech Electronics to offer a home edutainment system that allows children the ability to learn as they play in a dynamic and interactive 3D-gaming environment
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 5 Jan 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
Related stories
Processor architecture majors on 3D graphics
LSI Logic has developed a novel low-power 3D-capable application processor architecture.
Processor architecture is made for 3D graphics
VTech's V.Flash home edutainment system is the first consumer electronics product to use the recently announced LSI Logic Zevio application processor architecture.
VTech is one of the world's leading suppliers of electronic learning products including its popular V.Smile TV Learning System.
Koto is a leading manufacturer of unique entertainment devices and their related technologies.
"With expertise in their respective technologies, LSI Logic and Koto are effective partners who are providing us with a complete solution - including development systems, hardware and software support - to meet the requirements of V.Flash", said Julia Fitzgerald, Vice President of Marketing, VTech Electronics North America.
Further reading
Processor promises cost-efficient multimedia
The Zevio 1020 multimedia application processor is the first LSI standard product IC based on the Zevio architecture, announced earlier this year.
ANT Fresco browser ported to LSI set-top box SoC
Available now from LSI Logic is the company's software development platform (SDP) for the SC2000 digital set-top box (STB) chip featuring ANT's embedded Fresco browser.
"The result is a unique, 3D home edutainment system that we believe will be very successful this holiday season".
With the LSI Zevio platform, VTech is able to offer a unique TV-based learning system for less than $100.
Combining video gaming, CD playing and 3D graphic visual entertainment into a compact, stylish console, VTech's V.Flash creates a dynamic and exciting interactive learning experience.
V.Flash is expected to be available in the fall of 2006, with six licensed game titles that will be sold separately.
"At CES in January, we announced plans to expand into the digital consumer appliances market with our Zevio architecture".
"VTech's V.Flash Home Edutainment System validates the benefits of the Zevio architecture for next-generation consumer devices", said Tim Vehling, Vice President of Marketing, Consumer Products Group, LSI Logic.
"Innovative products like V.Flash showcase the cost-effective 3D graphics capabilities that we codeveloped with Koto".
Building on its substantial consumer standard product and custom solutions knowledge, LSI created the Zevio architecture to enable the optimal price-power-performance balance for digital consumer appliances such as GPS navigation systems, electronic toys, edutainment applications, and personal media players.
By providing development support tools and preverified, consumer-specific IP for companies like VTech, the Zevio architecture reduces design complexity and time to market.
Koto, developer of the WonderSwan handheld gaming system in Japan, collaborated on the creation of the Zevio 3D graphics technology to reduce complexity and help fuel demand for 3D features in a variety of consumer electronics products.
• LSI Europe: contact details and other news
• Email this article to a colleague
• Register for the free Electronicstalk email newsletter
• Electronicstalk Home Page
Search the Pro-Talk network of sites
