Design and implementation of discrete cosine transform chip for digital consumer products

This paper describes the design and implementation of a VLSI process for a DCT codec to use in digital consumer products. The design flow starts from the system specification to implementation process on silicon. The entire process is carried out using an advanced workstation based design environment for digital signal processing. To ensure that the designed VLSI processor satisfies the required specifications the software adopts the bit-true analysis. The bit-true analysis is performed on all levels of abstraction (behavior, VHDL etc). The motivation behind the work is small size chip area, faster processing, and reducing the cost of the chip