A Low-Power High-Performance Vector-Pipeline DSP for Low-Rate Videophones

Kazutoshi KOBAYASHI  Makoto EGUCHI  Takuya IWAHASHI  Takehide SHIBAYAMA  Xiang LI  Kosuke TAKAI  Hidetoshi ONODERA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E84-C   No.2   pp.193-201
Publication Date: 2001/02/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Low-Power High-Performance VLSI Processors and Technologies)
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VLSI,  DSP,  MSHVQ,  videophone,  video compression,  

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Summary: 
We propose a vector-pipeline processor VP-DSP for low-rate videophones which can encode and decode 10 frames/sec. of QCIF through a 29.2 kbps low-rate line. We have already fabricated a VP-DSP LSI by a 0.35 µm CMOS process. The area of the VP-DSP core is 4.26 mm2. It works properly at 25 MHz/1.6 V with a power consumption of 49 mW. Its peak performance is up to 400 MOPS, 8.2 GOPS/W.