H.264 Implementation with Embedded Reconfigurable Architecture

Because dedicated hardware implementation for sophisticated video processing algorithms, especially for H.264, are costly and inflexible, Samsung wants to establish a computing intensive processing platforms for Home/Mobile solution, capable of adapting to a range of specific applications and standards through reconfigurability. For this study, we experiment the PACT XPP for the reconfigurable architecture implementation. The XPP enables a software-based acceleration of streaming data-intensive tasks. By incorporating an array of processing elements with runtime reconfigurability capabilities, a software based, parallelize processing of critical data-intensive streaming tasks is achieved.