Kentaro Kawakami, Department of Informatics and Electronics, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe Universit
Mitsuhiko Kuroda, Department of Informatics and Electronics, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe Universit
Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Department of Computer and Systems Engineering, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501. Tel: +81-78-8
Masahiko Yoshimoto, Department of Computer and Systems Engineering, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501. Tel: +81-78-8
We propose an elastic pipeline that can apply dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) to hardwired logic circuits. The proposed pipeline can also reduce a required local bus bandwidth. In order to demonstrate its feasibility, a hardwired H.264/AVC HDTV decoder is designed as a real-time application. The proposed architecture reduces a power to 56% in a 90-nm process technology, compared to the conventional clock-gating scheme or a local bus bandwidth to 37.2%.
Citation:
Kentaro Kawakami, Mitsuhiko Kuroda, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Masahiko Yoshimoto, "Power and Memory Bandwidth Reduction of an H.264/AVC HDTV Decoder LSI with Elastic Pipeline Architecture," asp-dac, pp.292-297, 2007 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, 2007