Video compression with custom computers

Author

Bergmann, Neil W. ; Chung, Yuk Ying

Author_Institution

Space Centre for Satellite Navigation, Queensland Univ. of Technol., Brisbane, Qld., Australia

Volume

43

Issue

3

fYear

1997

fDate

8/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

925

Lastpage

933

Abstract

Custom computers are a new computing paradigm where reconfigurable logic in the form of SRAM-based field programmable gate arrays are used as a co-processor resource in addition to a conventional CPU. This allows application developers to adapt not only the software but also the hardware of the computer on an application-by-application basis. Experimental evaluation of computational speed for 2-D discrete cosine transforms of 8×8 pixel blocks within a 512×512 pixel image show that a custom computer can provide speedups of 50-100 times compared to state-of-the art computer workstations, confirming the applicability of custom computing for video processing applications

Keywords

computational complexity; coprocessors; data compression; discrete cosine transforms; field programmable gate arrays; parallel architectures; parallel programming; reconfigurable architectures; transform coding; video coding; 262144 pixel; 2D discrete cosine transforms; 512 pixel; FPGA; SRAM-based field programmable gate arrays; application developers; co-processor resource; computational speed; custom computers; image; reconfigurable logic; video compression; video processing; Application software; Central Processing Unit; Computer applications; Coprocessors; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Pixel; Programmable logic arrays; Reconfigurable logic; Video compression;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/30.628766

Filename

628766