Session 8: Methods & tools for dataflow programming

Dataflow programming is the programming paradigm that models a program as a directed graph of the data flowing (edges of the graph) between operations (nodes of the graph also called actors). The Reconfigurable Video Coding (RVC) standard is an initiative that has been led by the MPEG community to allow for the exploitation of the commonalities between video coding standards. RVC aims at providing the framework that allows for dynamic development, implementation, and adoption of standardized video coding solutions with features of higher flexibility and reusability. This framework is mainly based on the use of a dataflow programming language called RVC-CAL. In this special session, the selected papers are intended to overview the advances in methods and tools for dataflow programming in the MPEG RVC context. The four papers present some results for the development of reconfigurable hardware/software systems developed under the RVC framework.