UniPhier Integrated Platform Architecture

The UniPhier integrated platform for digital appliances combines hardware and software elements. Its hardware component consists of a CPU that provides overall system control, a UniPhier processor that offers a standardized media processing architecture by using dedicated libraries to perform codec and other processing, a stream I/O block that performs CPU-independent encryption processing and data transfers, a memory control block with a memory scheduler designed to maximize system performance, and an AV I/O block with a high-performance graphics engine and advanced audio and video input/output capabilities. Its software component consists of device drivers, an operating system, middleware, and a media library (provided in microcode) that implements a variety of codec environments.

UniPhier brings the components demanded by the digital appliances of today's age of ubiquitous networking − including high-quality audio/video technology with the power to excite and inspire users, power-saving technologies to conserve energy, real-time capabilities that enable smooth operation, and a secure architecture designed to ensure user safety and peace of mind − together as the system and core technologies of a single integrated platform. UniPhier system LSIs are ideal for applications ranging from mobile phones where low power consumption is a requirement to home entertainment and home networking products that demand high-performance codec processing.

• UniPhier Integrated Platform for Digital Appliances Architecture
• At the Heart of the Hardware Platform: The UniPhier Processor
• Software Platform with Resource Sharing and Reuse

UniPhier Integrated Platform for Digital Appliances Architecture

Media processor based scalable hardware platform
Software platform that makes possible reuse of software among product fields

At the Heart of the Hardware Platform: The UniPhier Processor

Standardizing the Basic Architecture and Customizing Function Blocks for Specific Products

The UniPhier system LSI's hardware platform consists of five components: a UniPhier processor core that incorporates a range of Panasonic audio/video processing technologies developed for dedicated DSP solutions in a variety of product areas, a CPU, and stream I/O, memory control, and AV I/O blocks.
Contributing to the UniPhier processor's unique suitability for use in system LSIs that are optimized for specific product areas is its combination of an instruction parallel processor (IPP) with support for the C and C++ languages, exceptional computational performance, low power consumption, a data parallel processor (DPP) for flexible extensibility as dictated by the required system performance, and an assortment of hardware engines and accelerators.

Hardware and Architecture Sharing

Software Platform with Resource Sharing and Reuse

Dramatically Improved Software Development Efficiency (Productivity)

The software platform integrates software interfaces and architectures that have traditionally been specific to individual product areas into a common platform consisting of middleware, an operating system, and device drivers. This approach enables software resources to be shared and reused across product areas to realize significant improvements in total product development efficiency and design quality, accelerating the development of combination products compared to the conventional product-specific platform design philosophy.

Software and Architecture Sharing

Build a common software framework based on an open software environment
⇒ Software assets can be accumulated and shared in a way that transcends product segments.

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