Toru Baji

A 20-ns CMOS micro DSP core for video-signal processing

A programmable 8-b digital signal processor core with an instruction cycle time of 20 ns is developed. A 37.5-mm chip is fabricated by advanced 1.0- mu m double-level-metal CMOS technology. This processor has a reconfigurable high-speed data path supporting several multiply/accumulate function, including 16-tap linear-phase transversal filtering, high-speed adaptive filtering, and eight-point discrete cosine transformation. To provide high-speed operation within the chip, a programmable phase-locked loop circuit is built on the chip. This circuit generates a high-speed clock, which is a multiple of the system clock fed from outside, and is synchronized to the system clock. >