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Toshiba’s MPEG-4 Solutions
Low-Power, Single-Chip MPEG-4 CODEC
….Enabling Wireless Multimedia
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Agenda
z Overview of MPEG-4 standard
z Overview of Toshiba’s MPEG-4 solutions
z Emerging MPEG-4 Applications
z MPEG-4 Roadmap
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What is MPEG-4?
A Comparison of video standards
ENTERTAINMENT TOSHIBA COMMUNICATIONS
MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 H.263 H.261
Primary
CD-ROM DVD, HDTV, Portable multi- Desktop video Wireline video
application Broadcast media conference conference
Video
datarate’s 1.5Mbps 4.6Mbps 20Kbps-6Mbps 20-384Kbps 128-384Kbps
Typical video 352x240 720x480 176x144(QCIF) 176x144(QCIF) 176x144(QCIF)
frame size 352x288(CIF) 352x288(CIF) 352x288(CIF)
Typical audio Stereo CD Surround Speech, stereo Speech Speech
quality sound CD, surround
sound
Error resilience Basic Basic Advanced Adequate Basic
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Toshiba’s MPEG-4 Activity
z Leader in MPEG technology standardization
ISO: Significant contributor to ISO MPEG-4 standard
ITU: H.223 Annex-D, Currently working for H.323Mobile
3G-PP: Leading Activity on 3G-324M which includes MPEG-4
IETF: MPEG-4/IP Standardization Activities
z Complete suite of MPEG-4 solutions
Single-Chip, Low-Power MPEG-4 Decoder
Software MPEG-4 Decoder
Single-Chip, Low-Power MPEG-4 CODEC
Firmware IP for MPEG-4 CODEC (Video/Audio/Comm)
Middleware IP (Driver/Video telephony, etc)
Reference Boards for Prototype Design
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Low-Power, Single-Chip Decoder
z First to market with production silicon
z Leveraged expertise in embedded DRAM technology
to enable low-power dissipation
Reduced power dissipation to 50mW
z 4Mb of embedded DRAM
z Video decode of 15 fps at QCIF (176x144 pixel)
z 30MHz clock frequency
z Fully compliant with MPEG-4 standard
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Low-Power, Single-Chip CODEC
z Again, integrated embedded DRAM for low-power
dissipation
Reduced power dissipation to 80mW
z 12Mb of embedded DRAM
z Video decode of 15 fps at QCIF (176x144 pixel)
z Adaptive Multi Rate Speech CODEC
z 70MHz clock frequency
z Fully compliant with MPEG-4 standard
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Power Consumption Comparison
Over 1.5W by PC CPU
1000 890 mW
DRAM
m
W
Full Soft DRAM
Decoder Processor
500 Encoder I/O
240 mW
Video DRAM
80 mW
Speech& Logic & DRAM
MUX SRAM Logic &
SRAM
0
PC T1 Based T2 T3
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MPEG-4 Single-Chip, Low-Power CODEC
Host CPU
(TX , …)
Stream In/Out
MPEG-4 Video Speech/Audio Mux/Demux
Cam Disp VRISC HW HW ARISC HW HW MRISC HW HW Host
I/F I/F I/F
DMA Controller DMA Controller DMA Controller
Arbiter & DRAM Controller
Prefilter Embedded DRAM (12Mb)
MPEG4 Video H.263 AMR G.729 Twin-VQ AAC H.223
Firmware Module Options
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What’s MPEG-4 Visual
Telephony ?
Cellular service
Internet
“You have to see
it for yourself….”
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Toshiba’s view on classes of phones
Feature Phone
Visual Oriented Models
Software decoder
Hardware decoder
Voice Oriented Models
I-mode like
terminal
Bluetooth Oriented Models
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T3 Application Example
Application software
Application software
IMT-2000
Middleware
Middleware MPEG4 Driver’s LCD
Controller
LCD
Operating System
MPEG-4 T3 LSI
CELLULAR Video Audio Mux./ CMOS
BASEBAND Core Core Demux. Camera
CONTROLLER Arbiter
12Mb Embedded DRAM
Host CPU
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Toshiba MPEG-4 Roadmap
MPEG-4
Process Technology
0.3µm Core Good picture quality
(Test Chip)
MPEG-4
MPEG-4
Video LSI
Video LSI
(T1)
(T1) Video and Audio functions integrated
MPEG-4
0.25µm Video & Audio
ISSCC 2000 version (T2)
MPEG-4
MPEG-4
Video & Audio
Video & Audio
(T3D) Decode
(T3D) Decode
MPEG-4 Production versions
Software MPEG-4
MPEG-4
0.18µm Decoder Video & Audio
Video & Audio
(T3)
(T3)
Decode & Encode
Decode & Encode
‘98 ‘99 ‘00 ‘01
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Toshiba MPEG-4 Summary
z Production versions of low-power, single-chip
solutions now available in two formats, one decode
only, the other encode and decode
z Leadership in embedded DRAM technologies enables
low-power dissipation
z Middleware software available now to support chips
z Also offer a software Decoder, available now for PDA
developers
z Toshiba - the only complete mobile MPEG-4 solution
provider - is poised to drive the wireless multimedia
market