Title :
An analog associative memory chip for VQ image compression
Author :
Navoni, Loris ; Besana, Monica ; Rolandi, Pier Luigi
Author_Institution :
Innovative Syst. Design Group, Milan, Italy
Abstract :
This paper presents a hardware implementation of full-search vector quantization image compression using an associative memory chip based on analog flash technology. Taking advantage of the features of this architecture, that performs a parallel search on 4 K 64-elements codebook in 4.6 μs, encouraging results have been obtained in terms of perceived image quality and computation speed
Keywords :
CMOS analogue integrated circuits; associative processing; content-addressable storage; flash memories; image coding; integrated memory circuits; search problems; vector quantisation; CMOS; analog associative memory chip; analog flash technology; codebook; computation speed; full-search VQ image compression; full-search vector quantization; hardware implementation; image quality; parallel search; Analog computers; Associative memory; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Decoding; Distortion measurement; Hardware; High performance computing; Image coding; Image quality;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1999. Proceedings., 1999 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Phoenix, AZ
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5041-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.1999.758311
