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PVR Tools
Create PowerVR applications for iOS, macOS®, Linux®, Windows®, WebGL™, and Android™. Use examples to learn or as a starting point for your own applications. Make use of the PowerVR Framework – a cross-platform and cross-API framework that acts as a scaffold for you to build your own rendering or game engine.
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The PowerVR developer forum is great place to start asking questions and getting answers from our PowerVR developer technology team and other like-minded developers.
| Topic | Users | Replies | Views | Activity |
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| RE: PVRTune for SGX Link on the Website |   | 4 | 28 | Mar 7 |
| When is VRAM freed? |   | 6 | 45 | Mar 5 |
| Greyed out counters |  | 4 | 46 | Mar 2 |
| PowerVR G6430 on Linux with libhybris |    | 8 | 276 | Feb 25 |
| How to export .basis file ?! |  | 2 | 42 | Feb 22 |
| Source code for OpenGL ES 1.1 on Windows |  | 5 | 196 | Feb 16 |
Develop neural network applications on PowerVR GPUs
Our neural network SDK for artificial intelligence makes it as easy and efficient for developers to create convolutional neural networks on our hardware. To that end, we have provided both an API and an CLDNN SDK, and also provided an image for flashing onto an Acer Chromebook R-13 for hardware development.
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Fun with PowerVR and the BeagleBone Black: Low-Cost Development Made Easy
Development boards are cool and the BeagleBone® Black (BBB) is one of the more interesting ones around. This widely available tiny board costs around £35 and will boot Linux is only 10 seconds so anyone interested in development can get stuck in quickly. The Introduction to Mobile Graphics course has been recently revamped for 2020 for the Imagination’s University Programme and the widely available, low-cost BBB is an ideal platform for student teaching and exercises based on OpenGL® ES2.0, instead of an expensive standard PC.
The Android Invasion: Imagination GPU IP buddies up with Google-powered devices
Google Android continues to have the lion share of the mobile market, powering around 75% of all smartphones and tablets, making it the most used operating system in the world. Imagination’s PowerVR architecture-based IP and the Android OS are bedfellows, with a host of devices based on Android coming to market all the time. Here we list a few that have appeared in Q4 2020.
PowerVR SDK and Tools 2020 Release 2 now available
We all know that 2020 has been quite a challenging year, but we hope you’re doing well. Over the last few months, here in DevTec, we’ve been working hard to get this new release out for you and the time has now come for our second release of the PowerVR SDK and Tools of 2020. So, what’s new with this latest release? Let’s take a quick look at a few of the major changes.
