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Hiroshi TAKAHASHI Shigeshi ABIKO Shintaro MIZUSHIMA Yuji OZAWA Kenichi TASHIRO Shigetoshi MURAMATSU Masahiro FUSUMADA Akemi TODOROKI Youichi TANAKA Masayasu ITOIGAWA Isao MORIOKA Hiroyuki MIZUNO Miki KOJIMA Giovanni NASO Emmanuel EGO Frank CHIRAT
A 100MIPS high speed and low power fixed point Digital Signal Processor (DSP) has been developed applying 0.45µm CMOS TLM technology. The DSP contains a 16-bit32K full CMOS static RAM with a hierarchical low power architecture. The device is a RAM based DSP with a total of 4.2 million transistors and a new low power design and process which enabled an approximate 50% reduction in power as compared to conventional DSPs at 40 MHz. In order to cover very wide application requirements, this DSP is capable of operating at 1.0 V for DSP core and 3.3 V for I/O. This was achieved by new level shifter circuitry to interface with cost effective 3 V external commodity products and confirmed 80% of power reduction at Core VDD=2.0 V, I/O VDD=3.3 V at 40MHz. This paper describes the new features of the high speed and low power DSP.