An 80/20-MHz 160-mW multimedia processor integrated with embeddedDRAM, MPEG-4 accelerator and 3-D rendering engine for mobileapplications |
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Authors: | Chi-Weon Yoon Ramchan Woo Jeengheon Kook Se-Joong Lee Kangmin Lee Hoi-Jun Yeo |
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Affiliation: | Dept. of Electr. Eng., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Seoul; |
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Abstract: | A low-power multimedia processor for mobile applications is presented. An 80-MHz 32-b RISC with enhanced multiplier, two 20-MHz hardware accelerators with 7.125-Mb embedded DRAM for MPEG-4 visual SP@L1 decoding and 3-D graphics processing, 2-kB dual-port SRAM, and peripheral blocks are integrated together on a single chip, MPEG-4 SP@L1 video decoding and 3-D graphics rendering with a 16-b depth-buffer alpha-blending double-buffering and gouraud-shading features at 2, 2-Mpolygons/s speed are realized with the help of the dedicated hardware accelerators/ The architecture of the processor is optimized in terms of power consumption and performance, and various low-power circuit techniques are adopted in each hardware block. The chip is implemented using 0.18-μm embedded memory logic (EML) technology. Its area is 84 mm2, and power consumption is 160 mW when all of the functions are activated |
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