A 342mW mobile application processor with full-HD multi-standard video codec

• Published in: 2009 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers pp. 158 - 159,159a
• Main Authors: Iwata, K., Irita, T., Mochizuki, S., Ueda, H., Ehama, M., Kimura, M., Takemura, J., Matsumoto, K., Yamamoto, E., Teranuma, T., Takakubo, K., Watanabe, H., Yoshioka, S., Hattori, T.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.02.2009
• Subjects: Bandwidth; Cellular phones; Circuits; Decoding; Energy consumption; High definition video; Intellectual property; Multicore processing; Video codecs; Visualization

Today's cellular phones must support full high-definition (full-HD) video in multiple video formats, such as H.264 and MPEG-2/-4, with low power consumption. Full-HD video processing requires six times the data bandwidth and is more computationally intensive than conventional standard-definitio...