A C80 data processing card on the PCI bus for a multimedia PC platform

Author

Gillies, M.A. ; Wu, H.R.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Software Eng., Monash Univ., Clayton, Vic., Australia

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

3

Abstract

Multimedia applications using personal computers (PC) are becoming more widespread. In the past, applications such as videoconferencing required the use of dedicated audio-visual equipment and transmission paths. By employing a PC as a multimedia platform, compressed data can be transferred between sites over a single transmission path. The quantity of data processed in high-quality real-time multimedia applications would overwhelm a single CPU system. Therefore, the need arises for an extra processor, or processors, to be incorporated in the PC. This paper describes a peripheral card for the PCl bus that integrates the Texas Instruments TMS320C80 multimedia video processor (MVP) into the PC system

Keywords

digital signal processing chips; image processing equipment; microcomputer applications; multimedia computing; real-time systems; system buses; video signal processing; PCI bus; Texas Instruments TMS320C80; compressed data; data processing card; multimedia PC platform; multimedia video processor; peripheral card; personal computers; real-time applications; videoconferencing; Application software; Australia; Computer science; Data processing; Microcomputers; Multimedia systems; Real time systems; Streaming media; Teleconferencing; Video compression;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing Proceedings, 1998. ICSP '98. 1998 Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4325-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOSP.1998.770135

Filename

770135