VSIP : Implementation of Video Specific Instruction-set Processor

With the rapid progress of semiconductor technology, application specific instruction-set processor (ASIP), which adopts high performance and low power of ASIC and flexibility of DSP, has become increasingly important. In this paper, the video specific instruction-set processor (VSIP) is presented. VSIP has special instructions and co-processors for computation intensive parts in video signal processing, such as inter prediction, entropy coding, de-blocking filter, etc. The proposed VSIP has been thoroughly verified using an FPGA board having the Xilinxtrade Virtex II. The proposed VSIP can implement a H.264/AVC decoder. The proposed VSIP is one of promising solutions for video signal processing