Techniques for motion video processing on transputer-based reconfigurable multicomputers

The design of motion video image compression algorithms has been a very time consuming process when carried out with the aid of serial computers. Without real-time or near real-time simulation aids it is difficult and tedious to assess the performance of different algorithms. Recently the CCITT set an international standard for motion video codecs, H.261, which took several years to develop. The authors address the problem of such software simulations. Here they discuss speeding up simulations by the use of a concurrency