VLSI FOR MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS

Today there is a race to design interoperable video systems for basic digital computer functions, involving multimedia applications in areas such as media information, education, medicine and entertainment, to name but a few. Digital TV functions can be optimized for encoding and decoding and be implemented in silicon in a more dedicated way using a kind of automated custom design approach allowing enough flexibility.

This paper provides an overview of the current status in industry of digitized television including techniques used and their limitations, technological concerns and design methodologies needed to achieve the goals for highly integrated systems.