Design and Fabrication of High Energy Efficient Reconfigurable Processor for Mobile Multimedia Applications

Applications for mobile multimedia are testing the performance limits of present day CPUs with variety. However, hardwired solutions are inflexible and expensive to develop. CPUs with flexibility have limitation of performance. So, the requirement for both ASIC-like performance and CPU-like flexibility has led to reconfigurable processor. Mobile systems require low power and high performance concurrently. In this paper, we propose reconfigurable processor for mobile multimedia with high energy efficiency. Reconfigurable processor with 121MOPS/mW is developed by 130nm CMOS technology. And the processor was simulated for energy efficiency with 539MOPS/mW by 90nm CMOS technology and effective use of instructions. And we tested its applications for multimedia field. We tested the case of inverse MDCT for MP3 and DF for MPEG4 and ME for H.264.