Reconfigurable architecture for video applications

Author

Lian, Chung-Jr ; Tseng, Po-Chih ; Chen, Tung-Chien ; Chang, Yu-Wei ; Chen, Liang-Gee

Author_Institution

Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, China

fYear

2007

fDate

26-29 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

21

Lastpage

24

Abstract

In this paper, the design concept of reconfigurable architecture for video applications is introduced. By introducing well-designed reconfigurability into application specific circuits, an application specific design can provide not only good performance in terms of area, speed and power, but also flexibility for different modes, parameters, and algorithms. Power-aware concept can therefore also be realized based on the reconfigurable architecture. Several design cases are discussed: reconfigurable architecture for MPEG-4 and AVC/H.264, scalable architecture for JPEG 20000, and a video processing unit (VPU) with reconfigurable memory.

Keywords

Algorithm design and analysis; Application specific integrated circuits; Application specific processors; Computer architecture; Design engineering; Field programmable gate arrays; Flexible printed circuits; Hardware; Motion estimation; Reconfigurable architectures;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SOC Conference, 2007 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Hsin Chu, Taiwan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1592-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1593-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOCC.2007.4545417

Filename

4545417