A novel utilization-aware and power-delay-aware intelligent DMA controller for video streaming used in AI applications
International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications
ISSN: 1742-7371
Article publication date: 3 March 2022
Issue publication date: 23 June 2022
Abstract
Purpose
In real-time entertainment processing applications, processing of the multiple data streams demands high efficient multiple transfers, which leads to the computational overhead for system-on-chip (SoC), which runs the artificial intelligence algorithms. High-performance direct memory access controller (DMAC) is incorporated in SoC to perform the multiple data transfers without the participation of main processors. But achieving the area-efficient and power-aware DMAC suitable for streaming the multiple data remains to be a daunting challenge among the researchers.
Design/methodology/approach
The purpose of this paper to provide the DMA operations without intervention of central processing unit (CPU) for bulk video data transmissions.
Findings
The proposed DMAC has been developed based on the hybrid advanced extensible interface (AXI)-PCI bus subsystem to handle the multiple data streams from the video sources. The proposed model consists of bus selector module, user control signal, status register, DMA-supported address and AXI-PCI subsystems to achieve better performance in analysing the video frames.
Originality/value
The extensive experimentation is carried out with Xilinx Zynq SoC architecture using Very High Speed integrated circuit hardware description language (VHDL) programming, and performance metrics such as utilization area and power are calculated and compared with the other existing DMA controllers such as Scatter-DMA, Gather-DMA and Enhanced DMA. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed DMAC has outperformed other existing DMAC in terms of less area, less delay and power, which makes the proposed model suitable for streaming multiple video streams.
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Citation
Kumar B., S. and E., K.K. (2022), "A novel utilization-aware and power-delay-aware intelligent DMA controller for video streaming used in AI applications", International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Vol. 18 No. 3, pp. 335-346. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPCC-11-2021-0280
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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