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Foreword
The TriMedia PNX1300 Series is an enhanced version
of the TM-1300 family of media processor.
The PNX1300 Series contains an ultra-high performance
Very Long Instruction Word processor, as well as a com-
plete intelligent video and audio input/output subsystem.
The processor has an instruction set that is optimized for
processing audio, video and graphics. It includes power-
ful SIMD multimedia operators for eight- and 16-bit signal
datatypes as well as a full complement of 32-bit IEEE
compatible floating point operations.
The PNX1300 Series is intended as a multi-standard
programmable video, audio and graphics processor. It
can either be used standalone, or as an accelerator to a
general purpose processor.
The architecture of the TriMedia family came about as
the result of many years of effort of many dedicated indi-
viduals. Going back in history, the origin of TriMedia was
laid by the LIFE-1 VLIW processor, designed by Junien
Labrousse and myself in 1987. Work continued after-
wards in Philips Research Labs, Palo Alto. My special
thanks go to the entire Palo Alto research team: Mike
Ang, Uzi Bar-Gadda, Peter Donovan, Martin Freeman,
Eino Jacobs, Beomsup Kim, Bob Law, Yen Lee, Vijay
Mehra, Pieter van der Meulen, Ross Morley, Mariette
Parekh, Bill Sommer, Artur Sorkin and Pierre Uszynski.
The Palo Alto period matured the architecture—we port-
ed all video and audio algorithms that we could find to the
compiler/simulator and refined the operation set. In addi-
tion, we learned how to give the architecture a market di-
rection. In May 1994, Philips management—in particular
Cees-Jan Koomen, Eddy Odijk, Theo Claasen and Doug
Dunn—decided to develop TriMedia into a major Philips
Semiconductors product line.
Under the guidance of Keith Flagler, the TriMedia team
was built. All of them contributed to take this from a set
of interesting ideas to a reliable and competitive product
in a short period of time. The initial TriMedia team includ-
ed Fuad Abu Nofal, Karel Allen, Mike Ang, Robert Aqui-
no, Manju Asthana, Patrick de Bakker, Shiv Balakrish-
nan, Jai Bannur, Marc Berger, Sunil Bhandari, Rusty
Biesele, Ahmet Bindal, David Blakely, Hans Bouw-
meester, Steve Bowden, Robert Bradfield, Nancy
Breede, Shawn Brown, Sujay Chari, Catherine Chen,
Howen Chen, Yan-ming Chen, Yong Cho, Scott Clapper,
Matthew Clayson, Paul Coelho, Richard Dodds, Marc
Duranton, Darcia Eding, Aaron Emigh, Li Chi Feng, Keith
Flagler, Jean Gobert, Sergio Golombek, Mike Grimwood,
Yudi Halim, Hari Hampapuram, Carl Hartshorn, Judy
Heider, Laura Hrenko, Jim Hsu, Eino Jacobs, Marcel
Janssens, Patricia Jones, Hann-Hwan Ju, Jayne Keith,
Bhushan Kerur, Ayub Khan, Keith Knowles, Mike Kong,
Ashok Krishnamurti, Yen Lee, Patrick Leong, Bill Lin,
Laura Ling, Chialun Lu, Naeem Maan, Nahid Mansipur,
Mike Maynard, Vijay Mehra, Jun Mejia, Derek Meyer,
Prabir Mohanty, Saed Muhssin, Chris Nelson, Stephen
Ness, Keith Ngo, Francis Nguyen, Kathleen Nguyen,
Derek Noonburg, Ciaran O’Donnel, Sang-Ju Park,
Charles Peplinski, Gene Pinkston, Maryam Pirayou, Par-
dha Potana, Bill Price, Victor Ramamoorthy, Babu Rao
Kandamilla, Ehsan Rashid, Selliah Rathnam, Margaret
Redmond, Donna Richardson, Alan Rodgers, Tilakray
Roychoudhury, Hani Salloum, Chris Salzmann, Bob
Seltzer, Ravi Selvaraj, Jim Shimandle, Deepak Singh,
Bill Sommer, Juul van der Spek, Manoj Srivastava, Ren-
ga Sundararajan, Ken-Sue Tan, Ray Ton, Steve Tran,
Cynthia Tripp, Ching-Yih Tseng, Allan Tzeng, Barbara
Vendelin, John Vivit, Rudy Wang, Rogier Wester, Wayne
Wonchoba, Anthony Wong, Sara Wu, David Wyland,
Ken Xie, Vincent Xie, Bettina Yeung, Robert Yin, Charles
Young, Grace Yun, Elena Zelayeta and Vivian Zhu.
Expert help and feedback was received from many. In
particular, I’d like to mention Kees van Zon of Philips
Eindhoven for the help with filtering-related issues, and
Craig Clapp of PictureTel for excellent feedback on all
aspects of the architecture.
My special thanks go to Joe Kostelec. He made me un-
derstand that my ambitions could better be realized in
California than in Europe. Furthermore, his vision and his
wisdom are credited with keeping this project alive and
growing until the ‘investment decision.’
The vision of a universal media accelerator is credited to
Jaap de Hoog. Jaap, I wish you were here to see it come
to fruition.
–Gerrit Slavenburg
After the initial TM-1000 product, the TM-1100, TM-1300
and now PNX1300 Series chips have been successfully
integrated in many video and audio products. It has been
my pleasure to have been involved in these designs and
would like to thank the people involved in TM-1300 and
PNX1300 Series projects under the guidande of Cees
Hartgring and Simon Wegerif. The team included Karel
Allen, Tien-Cheng Bau, Jim Campbell, Anitamk Chan,
John Chang, Roel Coppoolse, Taufik Dakhil, Mitch Dani-
il, Nam Dao, Patrick Debaumarche, Thuy Duong, Tor-
sten Fink, Jan Grotenbreg, Mohammad Hafeez, Feng
Hao, Farah Jubran, Babu Rao Kandamalla, Aki Kaniel,
Yan-Ling Li, Ying-Chao Liu, Naeem Maan, Don Marshal,
Thomas Meyer, Javed Mukarram, Long Nguyen, Tu
Nghiem, Elaine Outler, Charles Peplinski, Duc T. Pham,
Thorwald Rabeler, Raquel Ruiz, Ensieh Saffari, Hani
Salloum, Wenyi Song, Stephen Tomasello, Tran Tung,
Maria F. Wangsahamidjaja, Chang-Ming Yang, Moham-
med I. Yousuf, Hui Zhang and Gerrit Slavenburg.
- Luis Lucas
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