A MDSP (multimedia DSP) chip for portable multimedia applications

Author

Ong, Soohwan ; Yoo, Hyunjune ; Sunwoo, Myung H.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Ajou Univ., Suwon, South Korea

Volume

4

fYear

1999

fDate

36342

Firstpage

283

Abstract

For portable multimedia applications, low power, low cost and multimedia processing capability of DSP chips are essential. However, existing multimedia DSP chips having millions of transistors are not suitable for portable applications and existing fixed-point DSP chips are not suitable for multimedia processing. This paper designs and implements a low cost multimedia fixed-point DSP (MDSP) chip for portable applications. MDSP can process various packed data types-8, 16, 32, 40 bit. In addition, MDSP can perform two vector operations in parallel with two parallel data movement. The prototype MDSP chip has been fabricated, is running at 30 MHz and the total gate count is about 68000. The performance comparisons show an improvement in various multimedia algorithms

Keywords

digital signal processing chips; fixed point arithmetic; high level synthesis; instruction sets; multimedia communication; parallel architectures; pipeline arithmetic; vector processor systems; 30 MHz; SIMD; VHDL; fixed-point DSP chip; instruction set; logic synthesis; low cost; multimedia DSP chip; multimedia algorithms; packed data types; portable multimedia applications; sea-of-gate cell; two-stage pipeline structure; vector operations in parallel; vector processing; Arithmetic; Costs; Digital signal processing chips; Energy consumption; Hardware design languages; Microprocessors; Mobile communication; Parallel processing; Prototypes; VLIW;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1999. ISCAS '99. Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5471-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.1999.779997

Filename

779997