The Philips Nexperia Digital Video Platform

Oliveira, J. Augusto de; Antwerpen, Hans van

doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-0369-9_4

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“…The SOCs for all market segments are based on the Philips's Nexperia Home platform [7]. In fact, all but the simplest TVs use multiple chips (or dies: system in a package), for which there are several reasons.…”

Section: Companion Chipsmentioning

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Networks on Chips for High-End Consumer-Electronics TV System Architectures

Steenhof

Duque

Nilsson

et al. 2006

Proceedings of the Design Automation &Amp;amp;amp; Test in Europe Conference

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Consumer electronics products, such as high-end (digital) TVs, contain complex systems on chip (SOC) that offer high computational performance at low cost. Traditionally, these SOCs are application-specific standard products (ASSPs) with limited programmability. We describe why TV SOCs must become more flexible, and why companion chips together with networks on chips (NOC) are a crucial enabling technology. In particular; networks that span multiple chips will become important in the nearfuture.We demonstrate our ideas by extending a commerciallyavailable SOC for picture improvement in high-end TVs with the ,Ethereal NOC. Ourfirst unoptimised results indicate that replacing the original interconnect (consisting of dedicated links and multiplexers for bypasses) by programmable NOC increases the SOC area by 4% and its power dissipation by 12%. The new, flexible SOC allows new tasks to be spliced in at any point in the task graph. Both analytical performance verification and system simulations at RTL VHDL show that the extended SOC meets its functional requirements. Using the AEthereal design flow the extended architecture was designed, implemented, and verified in 12 person months.To the best of our knowledge, this is the first application of a NOC to a commercial SOC. The quantitive results indicate that even retrofitting a NOC to an existing architecture is beneficial at acceptable cost.

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Section: Companion Chipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Networks on Chips for High-End Consumer-Electronics TV System Architectures

Steenhof

Duque

Nilsson

et al. 2006

Proceedings of the Design Automation &Amp;amp;amp; Test in Europe Conference

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“…An example is the case of a time-shift recorder, which combines standard-definition MPEG-2 decoding and encoding functionality. In the Viper architecture [32] of NXP's Nexperia-Home platform [104], the MPEG-2 decoding function is mapped on a dedicated MPEG-2 coprocessor and the encoding is performed in software by the TriMedia processor [115]. Cost reduction along the curve of Figure 1 can be obtained by mapping both the encoding and decoding functions onto an MPEG-2 instantiation of the Eclipse template.…”

Section: Objectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The NXP Nexperia-Digital Video Platform (Nexperia-DVP) [104] specifies a family of SoCs and a software platform for advanced set-top box, digital-video recorder, and digital television products. Nexperia-DVP primarily targets source decoding, comprising conditional access, descrambling, MPEG-2 video and audio decoding, graphics generation, image enhancement, image composition, and display.…”

Section: Nexperia-digital Video Platform (Nxp Semiconductors)mentioning

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Eclipse : Flexible Media Processing in a Heterogeneous Multiprocessor Template

Rutten¹

2007

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All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owner and the author of the book. Acknowledgmentith this thesis, I stand on the shoulders of two remarkable architects, Evert-Jan Pol and Jos van Eijndhoven. Ever so often, I would study a certain aspect of the architecture. Typically, when I proudly presented my solution after careful consideration of all options, Evert-Jan would politely point out to me that I had overlooked a detail that rendered my solution utterly useless. However, my ideas triggered him to change one detail and invent the final solution, letting me wonder why I couldn't have come up with that. Next, Jos van Eijndhoven would pass by as an interested onlooker and within minutes sketch a highly innovative implementation on the white board. Jos and Evert-Jan: a very special thanks for all the support, coaching, and friendship. Evert-Jan, I am extremely grateful for all the architecting experience you taught me over the many years we worked together, and particularly for helping me to reverse engineer the design decisions in the EDDI use cases after a few years. W Clearly, this thesis builds on the work of many other researchers: Egbert Jaspers and Erik van der Tol, showing me what MPEG-2 really means; Pieter van der Wolf-who was one of the first to stress that Eclipse had a value far beyond a TriMedia accelerator. Pieter, thanks for teaching me how to properly structure a document and for all the last-minute reviewing of Eclipse papers, typically a few hours before the submission deadline. Thanks to John Moors, struggling to decrypt my coprocessor shell design document during RTL implementation. Karel Walters, your enthusiasm and skill in developing the Eclipse control software was inspiring! I will never forget the enthusiasm of the Semiconductors and Research teams in India. Ferry, thanks for all the times you rescued me from spending all weekend typing on my thesis in Bangalore! My gratitude goes out to Bob Hertzberger for supporting this thesis since 2002. Jacqueline, thank you for your help and support during these years! I am deeply indebted to my parents for virtually everything, with a special thanks to my father for reviewing and kayaking with me whenever it's too cold to stay home. Last but not least, a huge thanks to Katrien, Open Office guru Andrei, Jaap, Maca, Nanni, Enith, Giuseppe, Loes, Wouter, Joep, Joost, Csaba, Thibaut, Alex, Vedran, Andreja, Mathias, Clara, and Jaques for always asking when I would finally finish my thesis and at the same time inviting me to do other fun things… viii Acknowledgment I will never have enough pages to thank you, Derya, for being so sweet despite all the time I spent behind my laptop and left you alone…tatlı karıcım, sevgin ve desteğin için çok teşekkurler!

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“…This approach works well for components, such as peripherals, memories, programmable processors, communication infrastructure, and real-time operating systems (RTOS). Platforms (Keutzer, Malik, Newton, Rabaey and Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, 2000), such as Philips's Nexperia (de Oliveira and van Antwerpen, 2003), provide the next level of reuse, by defining interfaces and protocols to connect the re-usable components (both hardware and software).…”

Section: Resources: Their Performance and Usagementioning

confidence: 99%