The TriMedia™ TM-1000 is a general-purpose microprocessor for real-time processing of audio, video, graphics, and communications datastreams. In a single chip, TM-1000 combines an ultra-high performance, low cost CPU with a full complement of I/O and coprocessing peripheral units.
In consumer electronics appliances and personal computing products, the TM-1000 media processor performs multimedia functions with the advantages of special-purpose, embedded DSP solutions — low cost and single-chip packaging — and the programmability of general-purpose CPUs. It improves time-to-market through high level C/C++ language programmability and delivers throughput of up to four billion operations per second.

FEATURES
+ Processes audio, video, graphics, and communications datastreams on a single chip
+ Powerful, fine-grain parallel, 100 MHz VLIW CPU with separate instruction and data caches
+ Independent, DMA-driven multimedia I/O units to format data and multimedia coprocessors to offload the TriMedia CPU of specific multimedia algorithms
+ High-performance bus and memory system to manage communication between TriMedia processing units
+ Instruction set includes RISC, multimedia, SIMD-type DSP, and IEEE-compliant floating point operations
+ Robust software development tools and libraries that enable multimedia application development entirely in C/C++ programming languages
+ Configurable for standalone and plug-in card applications in consumer electronics and PC products