Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition Volume II (DATE'04)
Efficient Implementations of Mobile Video Computations on Domain-Specific Reconfigurable Arrays
Paris, France
February 16-February 20
ISBN: 0-7695-2085-5
Mobile video processing as defined in standards like MPEG-4 and H.263 contains a number of time-consuming computations that cannot be efficiently executed on current hardware architectures. The authors recently introduced a reconfigurable SoC platform that permits a low-power, high-throughput and flexible implementation of the motion estimation and DCT algorithms. The computations are done using domain-specific reconfigurable arrays that have demonstrated up to 75% reduction in power consumption when compared to generic FPGA architecture, which makes them suitable for portable devices. This paper presents and compares different configurations of the arrays to efficiently implementing DCT and motion estimation algorithms. A number of algorithms are mapped into the various reconfigurable fabrics demonstrating the flexibility of the new reconfigurable SoC architecture and its ability to support a number of implementations having different performance characteristics
Citation:
Sami Khawam, Sajid Baloch, Arjun Pai, Imran Ahmed, Nizamettin Aydin, Tughrul Arslan, Fred Westall, "Efficient Implementations of Mobile Video Computations on Domain-Specific Reconfigurable Arrays," date, vol. 2, pp.21230, Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition Volume II (DATE'04), 2004