The Xbox One System on a Chip and Kinect Sensor

Author

Sell, Johannes ; O´Connor, Patrick

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

Volume

34

Issue

2

fYear

2014

fDate

Mar.-Apr. 2014

Firstpage

44

Lastpage

53

Abstract

The system on a chip (SoC) at the heart of the Xbox One entertainment console is one of the largest consumer designs to date, with five billion transistors. The Xbox One Kinect image sensor uses time-of-flight technology to provide high-resolution, low-latency, lighting-independent 3D image sensing. Together, Kinect and the SoC provide unique voice and gesture interaction with high-performance games and other entertainment applications.

Keywords

image sensors; system-on-chip; SoC; Xbox one Kinect image sensor; Xbox one entertainment console; Xbox one system on chip; consumer designs; gesture interaction; high-performance games; lighting-independent 3D image sensing; time-of-flight technology; voice interaction; Bandwidth; CMOS integrated circuits; Central processing units; Graphics processing units; Image sensors; Memory management; Multimedia communications; Program processors; Random access memory; System-on-chip; Three dimensional displays; 3D sensing; CMOS image sensor; CPU; DRAM; DSP; GPU; HDMI; MMU; PCI Express; PCIe; SRAM; SoC; digital signal processor; dynamic RAM; gesture recognition; high definition multimedia interface; memory management unit; natural user interface; peripheral component interface; static RAM; system on a chip; time of flight;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Micro, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1732

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MM.2014.9

Filename

6756701