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Arm-2D GPU (Arm-2D 图形处理器)

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Arm-2D is not a GPU but an abstraction layer for 2D GPUs dedicated to Microcontrollers. It supports all Cortex-M processors ranging from Cortex-M0 to the latest Cortex-M85.

Arm-2D accelerates LVGL9 with two modes: Synchronous Mode and Asynchronous Mode. - When Helium and ACI (Arm Custom Instruction) are available, it is recommend

to use Synchronous Mode to accelerate LVGL.

  • When Arm-2D backed 2D-GPUs are available, for example, DMAC-350 based 2D GPUs, it is recommend to use Asynchronous Mode to accelerate LVGL.

Arm-2D is an open-source project on GitHub. For more, please refer to: https://github.com/ARM-software/Arm-2D.


Arm-2D 本身并非GPU,而是一个 面向微控制器的2DGPU的硬件抽象层 ,支持从Cortex-M0到最新的Cortex-M85等所有的Cortex-M处理器。

Arm-2D提供两种加速方式加速LVGL9: 同步模式(Synchronouse Mode)异步模式(Asynchronous Mode)

  • 当芯片支持 Helium 或者 ACI(Arm Custom Instruction) 时,推荐使用 同步模式 来加速LVGL;

  • 当芯片中存在Arm-2D所支持的2D GPU时,(例如:基于Arm DMAC-350所派生出来的2D GPU),推荐使用 异步模式 来加速LVGL。

Arm-2D是一个托管在Github上的开源项目,更多信息请参考:https://github.com/ARM-software/Arm-2D

How to Use (如何使用)

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In general: - you can set the macro LV_USE_DRAW_ARM2D_SYNC to 1 and

LV_DRAW_SW_ASM to LV_DRAW_SW_ASM_HELIUM in lv_conf.h to enable Arm-2D synchronous acceleration for LVGL.

  • You can set the macro LV_USE_DRAW_ARM2D_ASYNC to 1 in lv_conf.h to enable Arm-2D Asynchronous acceleration for LVGL.

If you are using CMSIS-Pack to deploy the LVGL. You don't have to define the macro LV_USE_DRAW_ARM2D_SYNC manually, instead the lv_conf_cmsis.h will check the environment and set the LV_USE_DRAW_ARM2D_SYNC accordingly.


总的来说:

  • 你可以在 lv_conf.h 中将宏 LV_USE_DRAW_ARM2D_SYNC 设置为 1、将宏 LV_DRAW_SW_ASM 设置为 LV_DRAW_SW_ASM_HELIUM 来启用LVGL的Arm-2D同步加速模式。

  • 你可以在 lv_conf.h 中将宏 LV_USE_DRAW_ARM2D_ASYNC 设置为 1 为LVGL开启Arm-2D的异步加速模式。

如果你正在使用 CMSIS-Pack 来部署LVGL,则不需要手动的定义宏 LV_USE_DRAW_ARM2D_SYNC,因为 lv_conf_cmsis.h 会根据当前的编译环境自动的对其进行配置。

Design Considerations(设计建议)

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As mentioned before, Arm-2D is an abstraction layer for 2D GPU; hence if there is no accelerator or dedicated instruction set (such as Helium or ACI) available for Arm-2D, it provides negligible performance boost for LVGL (sometimes worse) for regular Cortex-M processors.

We highly recommend you enable Arm-2D acceleration for LVGL when:

  • The target processors are Cortex-M55, Cortex-M52 and Cortex-M85

  • The target processors support Helium.

  • The device vendor provides an arm-2d compliant driver for their proprietary 2D accelerators and/or ACI (Arm Customized Instruction).

  • The target device contains DMAC-350


正如前面所说的那样,Arm-2D是一个针对2D GPU的硬件抽象层,因此,如果系统中既没有硬件加速器、也没有诸如Helium或者ACI这样能够起到加速作用的指令集,那么对普通的Cortex-M处理器来说Arm-2D几乎就无法为LVGL起到任何加速作用(有时甚至还有相反的效果)。

因此,我们 推荐大家只在如下所示的情形中为LVGL开启Arm-2D加速

  • 目标处理器为 Cortex-M55Cortex-M52 或者 Cortex-M85

  • 目标处理器支持 Helium

  • 芯片厂商为自己的2D GPU或者ACI指令集提供了针对Arm-2D的驱动适配;

  • 芯片中包含 DMAC-350

Examples(示例工程)

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API

lv_gpu_arm2d