Ultra low energy Domain Specific Instruction-set Processor for on-line surveillance

  • Authors:
  • D. Novo;A. Kritikakou;P. Raghavan;L. Van der Perre;J. Huisken;F. Catthoor

  • Affiliations:
  • IMEC, Leuven, Belgium;University of Patras, Greece;IMEC, Leuven, Belgium;IMEC, Leuven, Belgium;IMEC, Eindhoven, Netherlands;IMEC, Leuven, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • SASP '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 8th Symposium on Application Specific Processors (SASP)
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Many signal processing applications demand for highly energy efficient flexible implementations. In this paper, we propose a novel Domain Specific Instruction-set Processor (DSIP) architecture template which is tuned to deploy in the targeted domain of on-line surveillance. The architectur e, when implemented using a 40-nm CMOS standard cell library, executes a representative test vehicle with an energy efficiency of near ly 900 MOPS/mW including instruction and data memor ies. This is about 20 times higher than a state-of-the-ar t low power DSP architecture and less than a factor 2 below a heavily optimized ASIC realization for the same application benchmark.