PHILIPS TM-1000

Programmable Media Processor
TriMedia TM-1000
The TriMedia™ TM-1000 is a general-purpose microprocessor for
real-time processing of audio, video, graphics, and communications
datastreams. In a single chip, TM-1000 combines an ultra-high
performance, low cost CPU with a full complement of I/O and
coprocessing peripheral units.
In consumer electronics appliances and personal computing products, the TM-1000 media processor performs multimedia functions
with the advantages of special-purpose, embedded DSP solutions —
low cost and single-chip packaging — and the programmability of
general-purpose CPUs. It improves time-to-market through highlevel C/C++ language programmability and delivers throughput of
up to four billion operations per second.
MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS
TM-1000 is an ideal building block for any multimedia application
that requires processing of video, audio, graphics, and communications datastreams. It is well suited for applications ranging from
single-purpose systems such as videophones, to reprogrammable,
multipurpose devices such as set-top boxes or web browsers.
FEATURES
+ Processes audio, video, graphics, and communications
datastreams on a single chip
+ Powerful, fine-grain parallel, 100 MHz VLIW CPU with
separate instruction and data caches
+ Independent, DMA-driven multimedia I/O units to
format data and multimedia coprocessors to offload
the TriMedia CPU of specific multimedia algorithms
+ High-performance bus and memory system to manage
communication between TriMedia processing units
+ Instruction set includes RISC, multimedia, SIMD-type
DSP, and IEEE-compliant floating point operations
+ Robust software development tools and libraries that
enable multimedia application development entirely in
C/C++ programming languages
+ Configurable for standalone and plug-in card applications in consumer electronics and PC products
TM-1000 easily implements popular multimedia standards such as
MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, but its orientation around a powerful, programmable general-purpose CPU makes it capable of a variety of
multimedia algorithms, whether open or proprietary.
HARNESSING THE POWER OF VLIW
TM-1000 delivers top performance through its elegant implementation of a fine-grain parallel architecture known as very-long instruction word, or VLIW. Unique to the TriMedia processor’s VLIW
implementation, parallelism is optimized at compile time by the
TriMedia compilation system. No specialized scheduling hardware is
required to parallelize code during execution. Hardware saved by
eliminating complex scheduling logic reduces cost and allows the
integration of multimedia-specific features.
With the capacity to pack multiple operations into one VLIW
instruction and 27 functional units in which to process them,
TM-1000 can execute up to five operations in parallel with each
clock cycle. Such parallel processing is an ideal complement to the
inherently parallel nature of multimedia applications.
Another key contributor to TM-1000’s top performance is its use of
conditional execution. During program creation, an instruction
scheduler adds conditional code to each operation to enable guarded
execution — a technique that increases fine-grain parallelism and
significantly decreases code branching and execution time.
TM-1000
a single-chip
multimedia
workhorse
First in the family of TriMedia
processors, the TM-1000 is more
than just an integrated microprocessor with unusual peripherals.
It is a fluid single-chip computer
system controlled by a small
real-time operating system kernel
running on a VLIW CPU.
PROGRAMMABLE VLIW CPU
At the heart of the TM-1000 is a powerful DSP-like, 32-bit CPU
core. Its VLIW architecture utilizes a five-issue-slot engine. Parallelism
is achieved by simultaneously targeting up to five of the 27 pipelined
functional units in the TM-1000 processor within one clock cycle.
The most common operations have their results available in one clock
cycle; more complex operations have multi-cycle latencies.
Functional units include integer and floating-point arithmetic units
S D R A M
and data-parallel DSP-like units. They can access 128 fully generalpurpose, 32-bit registers during execution. The registers are not sepa-
INSTRUCTION
INSTRUCTION CACHE
CACHE
rated into banks; any operation can use any register for any operand.
TM-1000’s instruction set includes common RISC operations, special
ISSUE SLOT 1
ISSUE SLOT 2
ISSUE SLOT 3
ISSUE SLOT 4
ISSUE SLOT 5
DSP operations that perform powerful SIMD functions, custom multimedia functions, and a full complement of 32-bit, IEEE-compliant,
floating point operations. Both big and little endian byte ordering are
FUNCTIONAL UNITS
supported.
The TriMedia CPU provides special support for instruction and data
breakpoints, useful in debugging and program development.
TRIMEDIA INSTRUCTION EXECUTION
TM-1000’s unique VLIW CPU utilizes separate instruction and data cac hes,
five issue slots, 27 pipelined functional units , and 128 general-purpose,
32-bit registers to process up to five operations in one clock cycle.
DEDICATED INSTRUCTION AND DATA CACHE
TM-1000’s CPU is supported by separate, dedicated on-chip data and
instruction caches. To improve cache behavior and performance, both
caches have a locking mechanism. Cache coherency is maintained by
software.
Unique to the TriMedia
Data cache is dual-ported to allow two simultaneous accesses. It is
non-blocking, thus handling cache misses and CPU cache accesses can
processor’s VLIW
proceed simultaneously. Early restart techniques reduce read-miss
latency. Background copyback reduces CPU stalls. Partial word (8-bit
and 16-bit) memory operations are supported.
To reduce internal bus bandwidth requirements, instructions in main
memory and cache use a compressed format. Instructions are decompressed in the instruction cache decompression unit before being
processed by the CPU.
implementation,
parallelism is
optimized at compile
time by the TriMedia
No external second-level cache is required to deliver media performance an order of magnitude more than x86 processors.
compilation system.
GLUELESS MEMORY SYSTEM INTERFACE
The TM-1000 memory system balances cost and performance by coupling substantial on-chip caches with a glueless interface to synchronous
DRAM (SDRAM). Higher bandwidth SDRAM permits the TM-1000
to use a narrower and simpler interface than would be required to
achieve similar performance with standard DRAM.
TM-1000’s memory interface provides sufficient drive capacity for an
up to 100-MHz, 8-MB memory system (four 2Mx8 SDRAMS).
Larger memories can be implemented by using lower memory system
S D R A M
clock frequencies or external buffers. Programmable speed ratios allow
SDRAM to have a different clock speed than the TM-1000 CPU.
MAIN MEMORY
INTERFACE
Support for a variety of memory types, speeds, bus widths, and offchip bank sizes allow a range of TM-1000-based systems to be
configured.
HIGH-SPEED INTERNAL BUS (DATA HIGHWAY)
VIDEO IN
VLD COPROCESSOR
AUDIO IN
VIDEO OUT
AUDIO OUT
TIMERS
I 2 C INTERFACE
SYNCHRONOUS
SERIAL INTERFACE
TM-1000’s internal bus, or data highway, connects all internal function units together and provides access to control registers in each
function unit, to external SDRAM, and to the external PCI bus. It
consists of separate 32-bit data and address buses; bus transactions use
a block transfer protocol. On-chip peripheral units and coprocessors
can be masters or slaves on the bus. Programmable bandwidth allocation enables the data highway to maintain real-time responsiveness in
a variety of applications.
INSTR.
CACHE
IMAGE
COPROCESSOR
VLIW CPU
DATA
CACHE
PCI INTERFACE
TM-1000 ARCHITECTURE
On a single chip, the TM-1000 incorporates a powerful VLIW CPU
and peripherals to accelerate processing of audio, video, graphics,
and communications data.
TO
PCI BUS
Multimedia I/O and
coprocessing units
To streamline data throughput,
TM-1000 incorporates independent
DMA-driven multimedia I/O and
coprocessing units.These on-chip
units manage input, output, and
formatting of video, audio, graphics,
and communications datastreams
and perform operations specific to
key multimedia algorithms.
VIDEO INPUT
VIDEO OUTPUT
The video input (VI) unit reads digital video from an off-chip source,
Essentially, the TM-1000 video out (VO) unit performs the inverse
demultiplexes the YUV data, subsamples as needed, and writes it to
function of the VI unit. The VO generates an 8-bit, multiplexed YUV
SDRAM. Input is accepted from any CCIR656-compliant device that
datastream by gathering bits from the separate Y, U, and V data struc-
outputs 8-bit parallel, 4:2:2 YUV time-multiplexed video data at up to
tures in SDRAM. It performs any programmed processing tasks then
19 Mpix/sec. Such devices include digital video camera systems (which
outputs digital video data to off-chip video subsystems such as a digi-
can connect gluelessly to TM-1000) or devices connected through
tal video encoder chip, digital video recorder, or other CCIR656-com-
ECL-level converters to the standard D1 parallel interface.
patible device. The VO unit outputs continuous digital video in arbi-
When needed, the VI unit can be programmed to perform on-the-fly
trary formats including PAL or NTSC at up to 40 Mpix/sec.
2X horizontal resolution subsampling. This enables high-resolution
While generating the multiplexed stream, the VO unit can provide
images (640- or 720-pixels/line) to be captured and converted to 320-
optional horizontal 2X upscaling. For simultaneous display of pixel
or 360-pixels/line without burdening the CPU. When lower resolu-
graphics and live video, it can also generate sophisticated graphics
tion video is eventually desirable, performing subsampling during data
overlays with alpha blending of arbitrary size and position within the
capture can drastically reduce initial storage and bus bandwidth
output image.
requirements.
Useful in multiprocessor designs, the VI unit can also be used to
The VO unit can either supply or receive video clock and/or synchronizing signals from the external interface. Clock and timing registers
receive raw data and unidirectional messages from another TM-1000’s
can be precisely controlled through programmable registers.
video out port at up to 38 MB/sec.
Programmable interrupts and dual buffers facilitate continuous data
streaming by allowing the CPU to set up a buffer while another is
being emptied by the VO unit.
Like the VI unit, the VO unit can also be used to pass raw data and
unidirectional messages from one TM-1000 to another.
AUDIO INPUT AND AUDIO OUTPUT
The ICP also provides display support for live video in overlapping
The TM-1000 incorporates audio input (AI) and audio output (AO)
windows, the number and sizes of which are limited only by band-
units which use autonomous DMA to service datastreams required by
width. The final resampled and converted image pixels are transmitted
common serial audio DAC and ADC chips. Both units support glue-
over the PCI bus to an optional off-chip graphics card/frame buffer.
less I/O of stereo 16-bit audio data at sample rates up to 100 kHz.
A small amount of glue logic enables output of up to eight channels.
The audio interfaces are highly programmable, providing adaptability
to custom protocols and future standards.
VARIABLE LENGTH DECODER
TM-1000’s variable length decoder (VLD) offloads the processingintensive task of decoding Huffman-encoded video datastreams such
as MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. The lower bit rate required by videoconfer-
TM-1000’s audio interfaces can be programmed to provide the master
encing applications can be adequately handled by the TriMedia CPU
clock to over-sampled ADCs and DACs. The clock generated on chip
without the coprocessor.
can be controlled with a resolution of .0006 ppm. This high resolution
gives programmers subtle control over sampling frequency allowing
them to simplify the synchronization algorithms required in complex
multimedia systems.
I2C INTERFACE
TM-1000’s I2C interface enables inter-chip connection to and control
of other I2C devices. This allows TM-1000 to configure and inspect
status of peripheral video devices such as video decoders and encoders
IMAGE COPROCESSOR
and some camera types. It is also used at boot time to read the boot
The image coprocessor (ICP) offloads the TriMedia CPU of image
program from the EPROM.
processing and manipulation tasks such as copying an image from
SDRAM to a host’s video frame buffer. It can operate as either a memory-to-memory or a memory-to-PCI coprocessor device. In memoryto-memory mode, the ICP can perform horizontal or vertical image
filtering and scaling. In memory-to-memory and memory-to-PCI
SYNCHRONOUS SERIAL INTERFACE
TM-1000’s synchronous serial interface (SSI) provides serial access for
a variety of multimedia applications, such as video phones or videoconferencing, and for general data communications in PC systems.
modes, it can perform horizontal scaling and filtering followed by
The SSI contains all the buffers and logic necessary to interface with
YUV to RGB color-space conversion for screen display.
simple analog modem front ends. When combined with the TriMedia
V.34 software library, the SSI provides fully V.34-compliant modem
capability. The TriMedia CPU performs the data pump, fax protocols,
AT command handling, and error correction/detection. Alternatively,
the TM-1000 SSI can connect to an ISDN interface chip to provide
HOST-ASSISTED COPROCESSOR
advanced digital modem capabilities.
S D R A M
TIMERS
The TM-1000 contains four timers: three are available to program-
VCR
TV MONITOR
CAMERA
GRAPHIC
CARD
AUDIO
mers, the fourth is reserved for the system.
AUDIO
HIGH-SPEED PCI BUS INTERFACE
TM-1000’s PCI interface connects the VLIW CPU and on-chip I/O
RGB IMAGE SEQUENCES
PCI BUS
and coprocessing units to a PCI bus. In PC-based applications,
HOST CPU
TM-1000 can gluelessly interface to the standard PCI bus, allowing it
MEMORY
to be placed directly on the PC mainboard or on a plug-in card. In
embedded applications where TM-1000 is the main processor, the
STANDALONE
PCI bus can be used to interface to peripheral devices that implement
functions not provided by on-chip peripherals.
S D R A M
CAMERA
VCR
TV MONITOR
PERIPHERAL
AUDIO
PERIPHERAL
AUDIO
PCI BUS
ROM/FLASH
The first member of the TriMedia family, the TM-1000 is designed for
use both as a coprocessor in a PC-hosted environment and the sole
CPU in standalone systems .
UPWARD COMPATIBILITY
TM-1000 is the first member of a family of chips that will carry
investments in C/C++ media software forward in time. Software compatibility between family members is defined at the source code level,
giving Philips the freedom to strike the optimum balance between cost
and performance for all the chips in the TriMedia family. Powerful
compilers ensure that programmers never need to resort to nonportable assembler programming.
ROBUST SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT
The TriMedia software development environment (SDE) includes a
full suite of system software tools to compile and debug code, analyze
and optimize performance, and simulate execution for the TM-1000
processor. By enabling development of multimedia applications entirely in the C and C++ programming languages, the SDE dramatically
lowers development costs, reduces time-to-market, and ensures code
portability to next generation architecture.
TriMedia software libraries shortcut development of many applications
by providing a variety of standards-compliant algorithms to handle
multimedia data. These C-callable routines are optimized for top performance on the TriMedia architecture and include such functions as
MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 decode, V.34 modem, H.32x videoconferencing, audio synthesis, 2D graphics, and more.
TRIMEDIA SPECIAL, C-CALLABLE OPERATIONS
In addition to standard RISC and 32-bit floating point operations, the
TriMedia instruction set includes highly parallelized custom and multimedia operations that accelerate the performance of SIMD (single
instruction, multiple data) computations and saturation arithmetic
common in multimedia applications. These DSP-like special operations
By enabling development
are invoked with familiar function-call syntax consistent with the C
programming language. They are automatically scheduled to take full
of multimedia applications entirely in the C
and C++ programming
languages, the SDE
dramatically lowers
development costs,
reduces time-to-market,
and ensures code
portability to next
generation architecture.
advantage of the TM-1000’s highly parallel VLIW implementation.
TRIMEDIA REAL-TIME OPERATING SYSTEM KERNELS
For multimedia applications requiring system resource and task
management, the TM-1000 media processor supports the pSOS+™
(single processor) or pSOS+m™ (multiprocessor) embedded real-time
operating system kernels. Developed by Integrated Systems, Inc. (ISI),
the pSOS+ kernels are based on open system standards and are optimized to deliver the deterministic response essential for multimedia
applications.
TM-1000 Specifications
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT
Clock Speed
100 MHz
PCI INTERFACE
Speed
33 MHz
Instruction Length
variable (2 to 23 bytes); compressed
Bus Width
32-bit
Instruction Set
RISC ops.; load/store ops.;
special multimedia and DSP ops.;
IEEE-compliant floating pt. ops.
Address Space
32 bits (4 GB)
Voltage
drive and receive at 3.3V or 5V
Standard Compliance
PCI Local Bus Specification Rec 2.1
Issue Slots
5
Functional Units
27, pipelined
Name/quantity/latency/recovery
constant/5/1/1
integer ALU/5/1/1
memory load/store/2/3/1
shift/2/1/1
DSPALU/2/2/1
DSP multiply/2/3/1
branch/3/3/1
float ALU/2/3/1
integer/float mul./2/3/1
float compare/1/1/1
float sqrt./divide/1/17/16
Registers
128, 32-bit length
Special Operations
total number: 37
functions: DSP, multimedia, SIMD
MEMORY SYSTEM
Speed
VIDEO IN
Supported Signals
Image Sizes
VIDEO OUT
Image Sizes
CCIR 656 8-bit video up to 19 Mpix/sec
raw 8-10-bit data up to 38 MB/sec
all sizes, subject to sample rate
flexible, including CCIR601; maximum
4K x 4K pixels (subject to 80 MB/sec data
rate)
Input Formats
YUV 4:2:2, YUV 4:2:0
Output Format
YUV 4:2:2 in CCIR656 format
Clock Rates
programmable (4-80 MHz), typically
27 MB/sec (13.5 Mpixels/sec for NTSC, PAL)
Transfer Speeds
80 MB/sec in data-streaming and message
passing modes; 40 Mpix/sec in YUV 4:2:2
mode
66/80/100 MHz
AUDIO IN/AUDIO OUT
Sample Size
8- or 16-bits
CPU/Memory
Speed Ratios
programmable: 1:1, 5:4, 4:3, 3:2, and 2:1
Sample Rates
0 to 100 kHz, programmable with
0.0006 ppm resolution
Off-chip Banks
up to four
Clock Source
internal or external
Devices Supported
SDRAM (x4, x8, x16); SGRAM (x32)
Number of Channels
2 input; 8 output
Width
32-bit bus
Native Protocol
I2S and other serial 3-wire protocols
Memory Size
512 KB to 64 MB
Bandwidth
400 MB/sec (32-bit width at 100 MHz)
Interface
glueless up to 4 chips at 100MHz; more
chips with slower clock and/or external
buffers
Signal Levels
3.3 V LVTTL
CACHES
Data
Instruction
16 KB, 8-way set-associative with LRU
replacement
32 KB, 8-way set-associative with
LRU replacement
INTERNAL DATA HIGHWAY
Protocol
64-byte block-transfer
separate 32-bit data and 32-bit address buses
IMAGE COPROCESSOR
Functions
horizontal or vertical scaling and filtering of
individual Y, U, or V
horizontal scaling and filtering with
color conversion and overlay:
- YUV to RGB
- RGB overlay and alpha blending
- bit mask blanking
Scaling
programmable scale factor (0.2X to 10X)
Filter
32-polyphase, each instance 5-tap, fully
programmable filter coefficients
Performance
horizontal scaling and filtering: 80 MB/sec
vertical scaling and filtering: 30 MB/sec
horizontal scaling and filtering with color
conversion: 33 Mpixels/sec peak for
RGB output; 50 Mpixels/sec peak for
YUV 4:2:2 output
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SYNCHRONOUS SERIAL INTERFACE
Data Formats
variable slots/frame
External Interface
6 pins (2 can be used for tip and ring
for phone connections)
compatible with a majority of telecom devices
can be configured with multiple chips
Frame Synch
external or internal
Clock Source
separate transmit, receive, frame synch
transmit/receive clocks external source
automatic frame synch error detection
settable edge polarity for transmit, receive,
and frame synch
PHYSICAL
Process
C75:CMOS 0.35 micron; 4-layer metal
Packaging
MQUAD
Number of Pins
240
Power
supply: 3.3 V +/- 5%
dissipation: 4W (typical)
management: dynamic standby <200 mW
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