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Energy-Efficient Acceleration of MPEG-4 Compression Tools

EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systemsvolume 2007, Article number: 028735 (2007) | Download Citation

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Abstract

We propose novel hardware accelerator architectures for the most computationally demanding algorithms of the MPEG-4 video compression standard-motion estimation, binary motion estimation (for shape coding), and the forward/inverse discrete cosine transforms (incorporating shape adaptive modes). These accelerators have been designed using general low-energy design philosophies at the algorithmic/architectural abstraction levels. The themes of these philosophies are avoiding waste and trading area/performance for power and energy gains. Each core has been synthesised targeting TSMC 0.09 μ m TCBN90LP technology, and the experimental results presented in this paper show that the proposed cores improve upon the prior art.

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  1. Centre for Digital Video Processing, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland

    • Andrew Kinane
    • , Daniel Larkin
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Keywords

  • Control Structure
  • Motion Estimation
  • Energy Gain
  • Electronic Circuit
  • Abstraction Level