The increase of the wireless networks
has created a significant growth
in demand for portable devices with
different types of services such as text
processing, connectivity to different
networks, remote data base access
and multimedia processing. In order
to respond to these requirements, a
number of different hardware architectures
have been proposed recently,
designed principally to integrate
useful characteristics such as high
performance for multimedia functions,
energy efficient handling, small
size and a low complexity. This work
presents a general analysis of several
architectures designed principally
for real time multimedia processing
in mobile applications. This article
describes the advantages of these
architectures and raises comparison
strategy among them.
