Implementation of MPEG transport demultiplexer with a RISC-based microcontroller

Author

Fujii, Yukio ; Nakase, Junko ; Matsuno, Katsumi ; Gunji, Hiroshi

Author_Institution

Res. & Dev. Div., Hitachi Ltd., Japan

Volume

42

Issue

3

fYear

1996

fDate

8/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

431

Lastpage

438

Abstract

An MPEG transport demultiplexer (demux) has been implemented by the use of a RISC-based microcontroller as the core of the system in order to provide flexible data processing and a possibly cost-effective solution for an IRD (integrated receiver decoder) application. The hardware part filters out the packets necessary for one program and the microcontroller receives the packet, parses the headers and contents, and transfers the elementary stream data to the MPEG video/audio decoders. The implemented system shows that it still has approximately 60% of the CPU cycles, 16 Mcycles/sec, left with a video input of 15 Mbps

Keywords

code standards; computer architecture; decoding; demultiplexing equipment; digital television; microcontrollers; reduced instruction set computing; telecommunication standards; television broadcasting; television receivers; video coding; 15 Mbit/s; CPU; MPEG transport demultiplexer; MPEG video/audio decoders; RISC based microcontroller; data processing; digital video broadcasting; integrated receiver decoder; packet filtering; video input; Data processing; Decoding; Digital video broadcasting; Filters; Hardware; Information filtering; Microcontrollers; Research and development; Software systems; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/30.536140

Filename

536140