Equator BSP-15 Video-centric SoC

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Equator BSP-15 Video-centric SoC

• By Anastasia Christou
• Reg. No. 93089

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Equator BSP-15 Video-centric SoC

• Based on a high-performance VLIW
  (very-long-instruction-word) core and optimized
  for video processing
• BSP-15 (Broadband Signal Processor) chips
  delivers up to 50 billions of operations per
  second (GOPS) of video processing power, highest
  performance of total video processing output,
  single-chip, video-centric SOC device.
• It targets high-end, high-performance
  applications such as digital head-end systems.

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Equator BSP-15 Video-centric SoC contd

• BSP-15 chips are 100 programmable in C/C
• Enabling rapid deployment and field
  upgradeability of new applications and devices.
• A software programmable BSP-15 chip can replace
  multiple fixed-function ASICs, thereby reducing
  both complexity and cost of system designs.
• Equator's video-centric SoC solutions are
  available for digital media, digital video
  communications and video security and
  surveillance applications.

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VLIW Architecture

• The key to higher performance in microprocessors
  for a broad range of applications is the ability
  to exploit fine-grain, instruction-level
  parallelism. Some methods for exploiting
  fine-grain parallelism include
• pipelining
• multiple processors
• superscalar implementation
• specifying multiple independent operations per
  instruction

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VLIW compared to CISC and RISC
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BSP Architecture

• The BSP-15 processor, a four-issue,
  superpipelined VLIW (very-long-instruction-word)
  architecture, includes
• Four integer ALUs,
• Two 64-bit SIMD ALUs and
• Two 128-bit SIMD (single-instruction-multiple-data
  ) ALUs.
• The processor has 32 1-bit predicate registers,
• Eight 128-bit registers and
• 128 32-bit registers, which it can pair into
  64-bit registers.

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BSP Architecture contd

• The BSP-15 processor family targets video- and
  image-processing applications and is
  backward-compatible with Equators MAP-CA chips.
• The BSP-15 supports as many as 50 billion
  operations/sec, 8 billion MACs/sec, 16 billion
  SAD (sum of absolute differences)/sec, and as
  many as six MPEG-2 D1 decodes.

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BSP Architecture contd
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Programming Model

• The execution of a parallel application consists
  of a sequence of stages (supersteps) separated by
  boundaries (synchronization points).
• BSP, does not have abstractions for dynamic
  resource control and data distribution.

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Supported Peripherals

• Integrated peripheral interfaces include a IIC
  (inter-IC) serial-I/O-bus-control port
• Flash-ROM controller
• S/PDIF (IEC958) and IIS serial-audio I/O ports
• An 8-bit ITU-T BT.656 video-encoder-output port
  and
• Control signals for an external-video VCXO
  timing-control loop for MPEG transport-clock
  recovery.
• The programmable SVGA-display refresh controller
  provides 24-bit (8 bits times three), 135-MHz
  digital-to-analog conversion.
• The device also includes two multipurpose ports,
  each of which can function as an ITU-R BT.656
  video-decoder-input port or a transport-channel-in
  terface port.

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Development Tools

• Version 6.0 of Equators iMMediaTools
  software-development tool kit allows designers to
  develop and deploy videocentric applications with
  the BSP-15 chip running Linux.
• Equator and its software partners offer a range
  of video and codecs, including MPEG-2, MPEG-4,
  H.263, H.264, MJPEG, Windows Media 9 Series,
  RealVideo9, DivX, MP3, AC3, AAC, and other
  proprietary, low-bit-rate, streaming-video
  codecs.
• They also offer reference designs for
  digital-security and surveillance applications,
  including digital-video-recorder, IP-camera,
  motion-detection, motion-tracking, biometrics,
  and camera-steadying applications.

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Possible operating systems

• Unlike traditional DSP chips that run only media
  codecs, a single BSP-15 chip can handle all
  systems software needs from media codecs to
  interactive TV middleware to virtual machine for
  Java and operating systems like Linux
  eliminating the need for an additional processor
  and its cost.

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Applications

• Equator's video-centric SoC solutions are
  available
• for digital media
• digital video communications and
• video security and surveillance applications

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