System on Chip Seminar
An Integrated Reconfigurable Architecture
Morpho Technologies is developing a novel model for reconfigurable computing systems, targeted at applications with inherent data-parallelism, high regularity, and high throughput requirements. In a wireless terminal these applications might include baseband processing, video compression (discrete cosine transforms, motion estimation), data encryption, and DSP transforms among others.
The approach is based on an advanced DSP architecture that couples a RISC processor with a reconfigurable DSP fabric. This architecture combines flexibility, performance, low power consumption and ease of programmability. The end result is enabling a highly integrated, multi-mode, multimedia-enabled terminal design capability that can flexibly support evolving standards and data services.