Save Significant System Bandwidth and Power

AFBC is a lossless image compression protocol and format that addresses the difficulty of creating increasingly complex designs within the thermal limit of a mobile device. Video post processing is highly bandwidth-intensive and the GPU often must read a video and apply effects when using video streams as textures in 2D or 3D scenes. Such uses can reduce the overall system-level bandwidth and power cost of transferring spatially coordinated image data throughout the system by up to 50 percent. AFBC minimizes the amount of data transferred between IP blocks within a SoC with lossless compression ratios among leading standards and the benefit of fine grained random access. This allows for the application of AFBC throughout other IP blocks within an SoC design.