Throughput-scalable hybrid-pipeline architecture for multilevel lifting 2-D DWT of JPEG 2000 coder

In this paper, we propose a pipelined-architecture for high-throughput computation of multilevel lifting 2D discrete wavelet transform (DWT). The multilevel DWT computation is shared by the proposed devices based on pyramid algorithm (PA) and recursive pyramid algorithm (RPA), where the PA-based devices compute the lower order subands and the higher order subbands are computed by an RPA-based device. The hardware- and time-complexities of the proposed structure are compared with those of the existing recursive architectures for performance evaluation. Compared with the best of the existing recursive architectures, the proposed one has nearly 16 times less average computation time (ACT) for the 2D DWT of input size 512 x 512 for S=32, where S is half of the input rate of the structure. Moreover, it involves less number of multipliers and adders than the others when normalized for unit throughput rate. The proposed design offers nearly 100% utilization efficiency for S=32, and 94% efficiency for S=8. The latency of the structure is very small (which is of the order of a few cycles), and involves a small on-chip storage and less number of data/pipeline registers.