Hardware Software Co-Design of a Multimedia SOC Platform

• Main Authors: Chen, Sao-Jie (Author), Lin, Guang-Huei (Author), Hsiung, Pao-Ann (Author), Hu, Yu-Hen (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer hardware.; Software engineering.; Computer-aided engineering.; Computer engineering.; Electronic circuits.; Circuits and Systems.; Computer Engineering.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Software Engineering.; Computer Hardware.; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design.

System on Chip (SoC) platforms have become the de facto enabling technology for mobile multimedia personal communication and entertainment embedded systems. Among various architecture choices, application-specific instruction-set processors (ASIP) that incorporate sub-word parallelism provide a low-...

Table of Contents:

• Design Consideration
• System Level Design
• Embedded Processor Design
• Parallel Compiler
• Implementation of H.264 on PLX
• Real-Time Operating System for PLX
• Conclusion.