PICA200 is a graphics processing unit (GPU) designed by Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP), a Japanese GPU design startup company, for use in embedded devices such as vehicle systems, mobile phones, cameras, and game consoles.
The PICA200 is an IP Core which can be licensed to other companies to incorporate into their SOCs.
[2] The PICA200 is the successor to the ULTRAY2000, a proof of concept graphics workstation presented at SIGGRAPH 2005, created with the goal of testing DMP's attempts at a low power fixed-function "MAESTRO" GPU architecture.
It is advertised as supporting OpenGL ES 1.1 with certain proprietary extensions.
[5] Some MAESTRO-2G extensions include, per-pixel lighting[6] (where the lighting is calculated per pixel instead of per vertex), procedural texture generation,[7] bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF),[6] Cook-Torrance specular highlights,[6] polygon subdivision (through geometry shaders),[8] soft shadow projection, and fake subsurface scattering[9] (similar to two-sided lighting).