Processing the new world of interactive media

Author

Rathman, S. ; Slavenb, Gert

Author_Institution

Philips Semicond., Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Volume

15

Issue

2

fYear

1998

fDate

3/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

108

Lastpage

117

Abstract

Trimedia is a family of programmable multimedia processors from the Trimedia product group of Philips Semiconductors. This architecture is based upon a high-performances VLIW CPU core. TM-1000 is the first product from a family of multimedia processors based upon the Trimedia architecture. TM-1000 is designed to concurrently process video, audio, graphics, and communication data. TM-1000 consists of a high-performance VLIW-based CPU core, large instruction and data caches, main memory interface, and video, audio and communication related peripherals. TM-1000 is a multimedia system on a chip: high-quality video and audio applications can be implemented in TM-1000 using high-level languages such as “C” and “C++”. The authors mainly focus on the VLIW CPU architecture

Keywords

cache storage; digital signal processing chips; instruction sets; multimedia systems; parallel architectures; video signal processing; C language; C++ language; Philips Semiconductors; TM-1000; Trimedia; audio data processing; audio related peripherals; communication data processing; communication related peripherals; graphics data processing; high-level languages; high-performances VLIW CPU core; interactive media; large data caches; large instruction caches; main memory interface; programmable multimedia processors; video data processing; video related peripherals; Graphics; High level languages; Multimedia systems; Process design; VLIW;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1053-5888

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/79.664704

Filename

664704