Title :
Design space exploration for future TriMedia CPUs
Author :
Sijstermans, F. ; Pol, E.J. ; Riemens, B. ; Vissers, K. ; Rathnam, S. ; Slavenburg, G.
Author_Institution :
Philips Res. Lab., Eindhoven, Netherlands
Abstract :
It is widely recognized that fine-grain parallelism can greatly enhance a processor´s performance for signal processing applications. For this reason, future generation TriMedias will combine VLIW and subword parallelism in a single CPU. We present a snapshot of the new CPUs design process: the outlines are clear but fine tuning is still ongoing. We present the design flow and `workbench´ that the designers use for further tuning
Keywords :
digital signal processing chips; parallel architectures; Philips Semiconductors; TriMedia CPU; TriMedia TM1000 processor; VLIW; design flow; design space exploration; fine-grain parallelism; machine description; processor performance; signal processing applications; subword parallelism; workbench; Central Processing Unit; Coprocessors; Multimedia systems; Pipelines; Process design; Registers; Signal processing; Space exploration; VLIW; Videoconference;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 1998. Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4428-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.1998.678191
