Optimizing SoC platform architecture for multimedia applications

As system-on-chip (SoC) will soon become the whole world electronic production mainstream in the near future, Datang Microelectronics Technology Co., LTD., Beijing, China, is now focusing on SoC platform based hardware designs and software applications as a pioneer. In this paper, a typical research case is described on how to optimizing a SoC architecture for multimedia applications. ConvergenSC, one of CoWare Corporation's electronic system level design tool, helped us greatly on structuring a series virtual SoC architectures, and then quickly getting all kinds of performance analysis results according to the corresponding virtual SoC architecture. With its aids, we easily got our best design result