Paper Info
Title
Design and analysis of low power image filters toward defect-resilient embedded memories for multimedia socs
Abstract
In the foreseeable future, System-on-Chip design will suffer from the problem of low yield especially in embedded memories. This can be a critical problem in a multimedia application like H.264 since it needs a huge amount of embedded memory. Existing approaches to solve this problem are not feasible given the higher memory defect density rates in technologies below 90 nm. In this paper, we present a new defect-resilience technique which employs the directional image filter in order to recover data from corrupted embedded memory. According to the analysis based on simulation the proposed filter can greatly improve the visual quality of the defected H.264 video streams with errors in data memory reaching up to 1.0% memory BER (Bit Error Rate) with lower power consumption relative to conventional median filter. Therefore, the proposed method can be a good solution to overcome the problem of low yield in multimedia SoC memory without suffering from additional redundant memory overhead.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/11859802_24
Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
critical problem,multimedia soc memory,multimedia socs,memory ber,embedded memory,higher memory defect density,defect-resilient embedded memory,low yield,additional redundant memory overhead,low power image filter,conventional median filter,corrupted embedded memory,data memory
Interleaved memory,Uniform memory access,System on a chip,Median filter,Computer science,Computing with Memory,Composite image filter,Flat memory model,Multimedia,Redundant array of independent memory
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4186
0302-9743
3-540-40056-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.86
8
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kang Yi1466.66
Kyeong-hoon Jung2187.03
Shih-Yang Cheng3232.49
Young-Hwan Park410910.35
Fadi Kurdahi527436.96
Ahmed Eltawil6614.74