Experiments Around Sparc Leon-2 For Mpeg Encoding

Author

De Massas, P. Guironnet ; Amblard, P.

fYear

2006

fDate

22-24 June 2006

Firstpage

285

Lastpage

289

Abstract

In this paper, we present a modified implementation of the Sparc ^R V8 architecture with multimedia oriented instructions. The purpose of the global project is to improve video compression performances without designing a dedicated co-processor or using an expensive system on chip. In this project we investigate the complexity of modifying a standard processor. We implemented 12 new instructions and use some of them to optimize an algorithm of `Sum of Absolute Difference´. The result was a performance increase by 70% in the execution of this algorithm, allowing us to expect 30% speedup in the execution of a MPEG video compression. The area increase of the integer unit is about 18% and the clock frequency is not significantly modified in a LEON-2 implementing 5 from 12 of the new instructions

Keywords

data compression; instruction sets; multimedia communication; video coding; MPEG encoding; Sparc LEON-2; Sparc V8; Sum of Absolute Difference; instruction set architecture; multimedia oriented instructions; standard processor; video compression; Clocks; Coprocessors; Encoding; Frequency; Licenses; Personal digital assistants; Streaming media; System-on-a-chip; Transform coding; Video compression;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and System, 2006. MIXDES 2006. Proceedings of the International Conference

Conference_Location

Gdynia

Print_ISBN

83-922632-2-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MIXDES.2006.1706585

Filename

1706585