A vector-pipeline DSP for low-rate videophones

K. Kobayashi, M. Eguchi, T. Iwahashi, T. Shibayama, X. Li, K. Takai, H. Onodera
Proceedings of the ASP-DAC 2001. Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 2001 (Cat. No.01EX455)  
We propose a vector-pipeline processor VP-DSP for lowrate videophones, which can encode and decode 10 frames/sec. of QCIF through a 29.2kbps low-rate line. We have already fabricated a VP-DSP LSI by a 0.35 m CMOS process. The area of the VP-DSP core is 4.2mm¡ . It works properly at 25MHz/1.6V with the power dissipation of 49mW. Its peak performance is up to 400MOPS, 8.2GOPS/W.
doi:10.1109/aspdac.2001.913259 fatcat:cmrk6al7pbabfggkuaecbsx6va