Exploring Use of NoC for Reconfigurable Video Coding

MPEG RVC is a standard under development which addresses the issues of standardization of video coding tools and multi-format codec design. It is likely to have SoC based solutions developed for MPEG RVC in future. In this paper we evaluate Network on Chip (NoC) as an on-chip interconnection mechanism for MPEG RVC SoC. We use MPEG RVC reference C code for MPEG 2 and AVC intra-only decoding, and the open source NoC named NoCem for simulation. We make a new simulation platform over NoCem by using VHDL FLI. This platform allows us to make cycle accurate measurements. We experiment with different input resolutions and different configurations of NoCem and measure the network performance and overhead for reconfiguration. The results point that NoC is potential candidate for on-chip interconnection mechanism for MPEG RVC SoC.