Abstract
Multimedia applications emerge on portable devices everywhere. These applications typically have a number of stringent requirements: (i) a high amount of computational power together with real-time performance and (ii) the flexibility to modify the application or the characteristics of the application at will. The performance requirements often drive the design towards a hardware implementation while the flexibility requirement is better served by a software implementation. In this paper we try to reconcile these two requirements by using an FPGA to implement the performance critical parts of a scalable wavelet video decoder. Through analytical means we first explore the performance and resource requirements. We find that modern FPGAs offer enough computational power to obtain real-time performance of the decoder, but that reaching the necessary memory bandwidth will be a challenge during this design.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsPreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
DeHon, A.: The density advantage of configurable computing. IEEE Computer 33, 41–49 (2000)
The RESUME project: Reconfigurable Embedded Systems for Use in Scalable Multimedia Environments , http://www.elis.UGent.be/resume
Taubman, D., Zakhor, A.: Multirate 3-D subband coding of video. IEEE Trans. Image Proc. 3, 572–588 (1994)
Woods, J.W., Lilienfield, G.: A resolution and frame-rate scalable subband/wavelet video coder. IEEE Trans. Circ. and Syst. Video Techn. 11, 1035–1044 (2001)
Munteanu, A.: Wavelet Image Coding and Multiscale Edge Detection - Algorithms and Applications. Ph.D. thesis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2003)
Munteanu, A., Cornelis, J., Van der Auwera, G., Cristea, P.: Wavelet image compression - the quadtree coding approach. IEEE Trans. Inf. Techn. Biomedicine 3, 176–185 (1999)
Turaga, D., van der Schaar, M.: Unconstrained motion compensated temporal filtering. In: ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, m8388, MPEG 60th meeting (2002)
Devos, H., Eeckhaut, H., Christiaens, M., Verdicchio, F., Stroobandt, D., Schelkens, P.: Performance requirements for reconfigurable hardware for a scalable wavelet video decoder. In: CD-rom Proc. ProRISC Workshop on Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, STW, Utrecht (2003)
Xie, Y., Wolf, W., Lekatsas, H.: A code decompression architecture for VLIW processors. In: 34th Ann. Intl. Symp. Microarchitecture,pp. 66–75 (2001)
Schelkens, P.: Multidimensional Wavelet Coding - Algorithms and Implementations. Ph.D. thesis, Dept. ETRO, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel (2001)
Stroobandt, D.: A Priori Wire Length Estimates for Digital Design. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht (2001)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2004 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Stroobandt, D., Eeckhaut, H., Devos, H., Christiaens, M., Verdicchio, F., Schelkens, P. (2004). Reconfigurable Hardware for a Scalable Wavelet Video Decoder and Its Performance Requirements. In: Pimentel, A.D., Vassiliadis, S. (eds) Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation. SAMOS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3133. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27776-7_22
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27776-7_22
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-22377-1
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-27776-7
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive