Design trends in multimedia hardware architectures

Omid Fatemi; Sethuraman Panchanathan

doi:10.1117/12.304668

26 March 1998 Design trends in multimedia hardware architectures

Omid Fatemi, Sethuraman Panchanathan

Proceedings Volume 3311, Multimedia Hardware Architectures 1998; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.304668
Event: Photonics West '98 Electronic Imaging, 1998, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Multimedia processing presents challenges form the perspectives of both hardware and software. Each media in a multimedia environment requires different processes, techniques, algorithms and hardware implementations. Each of technologies involved in multimedia processing depends on VLSI implementation for cost efficiency. Although recent advance solved many hardware problems, but the high demands of multimedia processing require special architectural approaches. In this paper, we propose the categorization of main architectural alternatives for multimedia computing architecture design as in any other processor design namely: dedicated and programmable. Combination of dedicated and programmable modules in a multimedia architecture offers a compromise between the two strategies as an adapted architecture for multimedia purposes. The design trends in each category and the classification of different multimedia architectures are detailed in this paper.

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Omid Fatemi and Sethuraman Panchanathan "Design trends in multimedia hardware architectures", Proc. SPIE 3311, Multimedia Hardware Architectures 1998, (26 March 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.304668

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