An 8.6mW 12.5Mvertices/s 800MOPS 8.91mm2 Stream Processor Core for Mobile Graphics and Video Applications

Abstract

An 8.6 mW stream processor core for mobile applications is implemented with 8.91 mm2 area in 0.18 mum CMOS technology at 50 MHz. The adaptive multi-thread architecture with configurable memory array and geometry-content-aware technique are proposed to reduce power consumption while achieving 12.5 Mvertices/s for 3D graphics and motion estimation with search range {H[-24,24),V[-16,16]} for CIF (352times288) 30 fps video encoding.