Design of a development system for multimedia applications based on a single chip multiprocessor array

Author

Herrmann, Klaus ; Gaedke, Klaus ; Hilgenstock, J. ; Pirsch, Peter

Author_Institution

Lab. fur Informationstechnol., Hannover Univ., Germany

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

13-16 Oct 1996

Firstpage

1151

Abstract

A development system for investigations on video signal processing in multimedia applications has been developed. This system is based on the single chip multiprocessor array MAXPE9 which integrates 9 programmable video signal processing elements AxPe on a silicon area of 16 cm². Each AxPe has a peak arithmetic performance of 1 GOPS. In order to demonstrate the computational power of the MAXPE9 for video coding schemes in multimedia applications, an universal hardware platform based on a personal computer and software tools have been developed. It allows an efficient programming of the MAXPE9 including an immediate verification on hardware. Examples of video coding schemes to be investigated are hybrid coding according to ITU-T H.261, H.263 or ISO MPEG 1/2

Keywords

development systems; digital signal processing chips; formal verification; microcomputer applications; multimedia systems; multiprocessing systems; programming environments; real-time systems; software tools; video coding; AxPe; ISO MPEG 1/2; ITU-T H.261; ITU-T H.263; MAXPE9; development system; hybrid coding; multimedia applications; personal computer; programmable video signal processing elements; single chip multiprocessor array; software tools; universal hardware platform; verification; video coding schemes; video signal processing; Application software; Arithmetic; Hardware; ISO standards; Microcomputers; Multimedia systems; Silicon; Software tools; Video coding; Video signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, 1996. ICECS '96., Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rodos

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3650-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.1996.584626

Filename

584626