PROPHID: a heterogeneous multi-processor architecture for multimedia

Proceedings International Conference on Computer Design VLSI in Computers and Processors Pub Date : 1997-10-12 DOI:10.1109/ICCD.1997.628864

J. Leijten, J. V. Meerbergen, A. Timmer, J. Jess

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PROPHID is a design method aiming at high-performance systems with a focus on high-throughput signal processing for multimedia applications. The processing and communication bandwidth requirements of such systems are very high. To obtain a good balance between performance, programmability and efficiency in terms of speed, area and power PROPHID uses a novel heterogeneous multi-processor architecture template which exploits task-level concurrency. A general purpose processor aimed at control-oriented tasks and low to medium-performance signal processing tasks, as well as application domain specific processors aimed at high-performance signal processing tasks are available in this template. Next to a central control-oriented bus a special high-throughput communication network is used to meet the high bandwidth requirements of the application domain specific processors. This paper discusses the characteristics and advantages of the PROPHID architecture showing that high performance is obtained by embedding multiple autonomous data-driven processors in a stream-based communication environment.

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PROPHID:用于多媒体的异构多处理器架构

PROPHID是一种针对高性能系统的设计方法，主要针对多媒体应用的高吞吐量信号处理。这类系统对处理和通信带宽的要求非常高。为了在性能、可编程性和效率之间取得良好的平衡，在速度、面积和功耗方面，PROPHID使用了一种新的异构多处理器架构模板，该模板利用任务级并发性。针对面向控制任务和中低性能信号处理任务的通用处理器，以及针对高性能信号处理任务的应用领域特定处理器在此模板中可用。在面向中央控制的总线旁边，使用了一个特殊的高吞吐量通信网络来满足应用领域特定处理器的高带宽要求。本文讨论了PROPHID体系结构的特点和优势，表明在基于流的通信环境中嵌入多个自主数据驱动处理器可以获得高性能。

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