Software MPEG-2 video decoder on a DSP Enhanced Memory Module

This paper describes our effort in implementing software MPEG-2 video decoder using TI 'C6201 DSP and Basava Technology. The hardware device, DSP Enhanced Memory Module (DSP-MM), leverages the advantages of high computation performance from 'C6201 DSP, as well as high bandwidth memory access and efficient memory usage from Basava Technology. A prototype with 'C6201 DSP and 32MB SDRAM shared memory is functioning in PC environment running Windows 95 operating system. We will describe the video decoder in detail.