An 80/20-MHz 160-mW multimedia processor integrated with embedded DRAM, MPEG-4 accelerator and 3-D rendering engine for mobile applications
Chi-Weon Yoon, Ramchan Woo, Jeengheon Kook, Se-Joong Lee, Kangmin Lee, Hoi-Jun Yeo · IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits · 2001
A low-power multimedia processor for mobile applications is presented. An 80-MHz 32-b RISC with enhanced multiplier, two 20-MHz hardware accelerators with 7.125-Mb embedded DRAM for MPEG-4 visual SP@L1 decoding and 3-D graphics processing, 2-kB dual-port SRAM, and peripheral blocks are integrated together on a single chip, MPEG-4 SP@L1 video decoding and 3-D graphics rendering with a 16-b depth-buffer alpha-blending double-buffering and gouraud-shading features at 2, 2-Mpolygons/s speed are realized with the help of the dedicated hardware accelerators/ The architecture of the processor is optimized in terms of power consumption and performance, and various low-power circuit techniques are adopted in each hardware block. The chip is implemented using 0.18-/spl mu/m embedded memory logic (EML) technology. Its area is 84 mm/sup 2/, and power consumption is 160 mW when all of the functions are activated.