| Abstract | Consumer electronic applications become the driving force
for the growth of semiconductor technology. The variety of multimedia
applications with wide range real time demands requests different
computing architecture. Reconfigurable architectures are the most
promising techniques. In this presentation, the design concept of
reconfigurable architecture for multimedia applications is
introduced. By introducing well-designed reconfigurability into
application specific circuits, the design can provide not only good
performance in terms of area, speed and power, but also flexibility
for different modes, parameters, and fast algorithms. Power-aware
concept can therefore also be realized based on reconfigurable
architecture. Several design cases will be included in this talk:
reconfigurable architecture for MPEG-4 and H.264/AVC, scalable
architecture for JPEG 2000, and a video processing unit (VPU) with
reconfigurable memory. The software and system optimization issues
will also be addressed. |