Ventana Graphics Capabilities

The IMX6 CPU contains the following hardware graphics accelerators:

• IPU - Image Processing Unit
• VPU - Video Processing Unit
• GPU - Graphics Processing Unit

IPU - Image Processing Unit

The Image Processing Unit contains hardware support for the following:

• Image Re-sizing and Blending
• Image Enhancement
• Image Inversion / Rotation

Software support:

• The Gateworks Yocto BSP contains an IPU driver with a ​userspace ioctl API
• The IPU driver API is used by the gst-fsl-plugins and gstreamer-imx Gstreamer plugins
• Other examples can be found here:
  • ​​https://community.freescale.com/docs/DOC-94961
  • ​https://github.com/rogeriorps/ipu-examples
  • imx-test package ​​http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/mirror/sources/imx-test-5.2.tar.gz