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38th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO'05)
The TM3270 Media-Processor
Barcelona, Spain
November 12-November 16
ISBN: 0-7695-2440-0
Jan-Willem van de Waerdt, Philips Semiconductors
Stamatis Vassiliadis, Delft, the Netherlands
Sanjeev Das, Philips Semiconductors
Sebastian Mirolo, Philips Semiconductors
Chris Yen, Philips Semiconductors
Bill Zhong, Philips Semiconductors
Carlos Basto, Philips Semiconductors
Jean-Paul van Itegem, Philips Semiconductors
Dinesh Amirtharaj, Philips Semiconductors
Kulbhushan Kalra, Philips Semiconductors
Pedro Rodriguez, Philips Semiconductors
Hans van Antwerpen, Philips Semiconductors

We present the TM3270 media-processor, the latest TriMedia VLIW processor, tuned to address the performance demands of standard definition video processing, combined with embedded processor requirements for the consumer market. We discuss the architecture, implementation, and its first realization in a 90 nm process technology. The processor incorporates instruction set architectural (ISA) extensions and a load/store unit optimized for the video-processing domain. The ISA extensions improve the performance on video processing kernels. The data cache policies and prefetching techniques allow for efficient access to multimedia data. Finally, power consumption and performance data are presented.

Citation:
Jan-Willem van de Waerdt, Stamatis Vassiliadis, Sanjeev Das, Sebastian Mirolo, Chris Yen, Bill Zhong, Carlos Basto, Jean-Paul van Itegem, Dinesh Amirtharaj, Kulbhushan Kalra, Pedro Rodriguez, Hans van Antwerpen, "The TM3270 Media-Processor," micro, pp.331-342, 38th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO'05), 2005
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