Automatic Generation of Optimized and Synthesizable Hardware Implementation from High-Level Dataflow Programs
Joint Authors
Déforges, Olivier
Raulet, Mickaël
Abid, Mohamed
Jerbi, Khaled
Source
Issue
Vol. 2012, Issue 2012 (31 Dec. 2012), pp.1-14, 14 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2012-08-16
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
14
Main Subjects
Engineering Sciences and Information Technology
Abstract EN
In this paper, we introduce the Reconfigurable Video Coding (RVC) standard based on the idea that video processing algorithms can be defined as a library of components that can be updated and standardized separately.
MPEG RVC framework aims at providing a unified high-level specification of current MPEG coding technologies using a dataflow language called Cal Actor Language (CAL).
CAL is associated with a set of tools to design dataflow applications and to generate hardware and software implementations.
Before this work, the existing CAL hardware compilers did not support high-level features of the CAL.
After presenting the main notions of the RVC standard, this paper introduces an automatic transformation process that analyses the non-compliant features and makes the required changes in the intermediate representation of the compiler while keeping the same behavior.
Finally, the implementation results of the transformation on video and still image decoders are summarized.
We show that the obtained results can largely satisfy the real time constraints for an embedded design on FPGA as we obtain a throughput of 73 FPS for MPEG 4 decoder and 34 FPS for coding and decoding process of the LAR coder using a video of CIF image size.
This work resolves the main limitation of hardware generation from CAL designs.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Jerbi, Khaled& Raulet, Mickaël& Déforges, Olivier& Abid, Mohamed. 2012. Automatic Generation of Optimized and Synthesizable Hardware Implementation from High-Level Dataflow Programs. VLSI Design،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-461509
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Jerbi, Khaled…[et al.]. Automatic Generation of Optimized and Synthesizable Hardware Implementation from High-Level Dataflow Programs. VLSI Design No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-461509
American Medical Association (AMA)
Jerbi, Khaled& Raulet, Mickaël& Déforges, Olivier& Abid, Mohamed. Automatic Generation of Optimized and Synthesizable Hardware Implementation from High-Level Dataflow Programs. VLSI Design. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-461509
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-461509