Moustique: smaller than an ASIC and fully programmable

Low-cost and fast time-to-market are the most pressing requirements for embedded systems solutions. Silicon Hive's "Moustique" product family of ultra-low-cost and highly programmable cores addresses both needs. An MPEG4 decoder plus a complex de-blocking algorithm can be mapped onto a 0.7 mm/sup 2/ (0.12/spl mu/m process) accelerator subsystem, preserving full programmability, and operating with CIF resolution at 30 frames per second. The accelerators are supported by the Hivecc ANSI-C compiler suite, which automatically extracts the intrinsic parallelism.