Title :
Moustique: smaller than an ASIC and fully programmable
Abstract :
Low-cost and fast time-to-market are the most pressing requirements for embedded systems solutions. Silicon Hive\´s "Moustique" product family of ultra-low-cost and highly programmable cores addresses both needs. An MPEG4 decoder plus a complex de-blocking algorithm can be mapped onto a 0.7 mm2 (0.12μm process) accelerator subsystem, preserving full programmability, and operating with CIF resolution at 30 frames per second. The accelerators are supported by the Hivecc ANSI-C compiler suite, which automatically extracts the intrinsic parallelism.
Keywords :
embedded systems; logic design; microprocessor chips; programmable logic devices; 0.12 micron; ASIC; CIF resolution; Hivecc ANSI-C compiler suite; MPEG4 decoder; Moustique; accelerator subsystem; complex de-blocking algorithm; embedded systems; intrinsic parallelism; programmable cores; ANSI standards; Application software; Application specific integrated circuits; Clocks; Decoding; Frequency; Logic testing; MPEG 4 Standard; Military computing; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
System-on-Chip, 2003. Proceedings. International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8160-2
DOI :
10.1109/ISSOC.2003.1267701
