12th IEEE International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP'00)
Integration of High-Performance ASICs into Reconfigurable Systems Providing Additional Multimedia Functionality
Boston, Massachusetts
July 10-July 12
ISBN: 0-7695-0716-6
The computational power of many future multimedia applications is beyond the capabilities of today's multimedia systems. Therefore, the integration of additional high-performance multimedia components is most decisive. This paper presents the integration of multimedia components into computer systems using reconfigurable coprocessor boards. The goal of these reconfigurable platforms which can be adapted to several applications and which include digital signal processors, controlling and memory devices as well as dedicated multimedia ASICs is worked out. On the way to such a platform, four ASICs for image and text processing are presented. The integration of these components into a computing system using a CardBus-based coprocessor board is shown.
Index Terms:
reconfigurable coprocessor board, multimedia, ASIC, VLSI, CMOS, DSP, digital signal processing
Citation:
Holger Blume, Hans-Martin Blüthgen, Christiane Henning, Patrick Osterloh, "Integration of High-Performance ASICs into Reconfigurable Systems Providing Additional Multimedia Functionality," asap, pp.66, 12th IEEE International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP'00), 2000