Evaluation of architectures for an ASP MPEG-4 decoder using a system-level design methodology

Luz Garcia; Victor Reyes; Dacil Barreto; Gustavo Marrero; Tomas Bautista; Antonio Nunez

doi:10.1117/12.608807

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30 June 2005 Evaluation of architectures for an ASP MPEG-4 decoder using a system-level design methodology

Luz Garcia, Victor Reyes, Dacil Barreto, Gustavo Marrero, Tomas Bautista, Antonio Nunez

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Proceedings Volume 5837, VLSI Circuits and Systems II; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.608807
Event: Microtechnologies for the New Millennium 2005, 2005, Sevilla, Spain

Abstract

Trends in multimedia consumer electronics, digital video and audio, aim to reach users through low-cost mobile devices connected to data broadcasting networks with limited bandwidth. An emergent broadcasting network is the digital audio broadcasting network (DAB) which provides CD quality audio transmission together with robustness and efficiency techniques to allow good quality reception in motion conditions. This paper focuses on the system-level evaluation of different architectural options to allow low bandwidth digital video reception over DAB, based on video compression techniques. Profiling and design space exploration techniques are applied over the ASP MPEG-4 decoder in order to find out the best HW/SW partition given the application and platform constraints. An innovative SystemC-based system-level design tool, called CASSE, is being used for modelling, exploration and evaluation of different ASP MPEG-4 decoder HW/SW partitions. System-level trade offs and quantitative data derived from this analysis are also presented in this work.

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Luz Garcia, Victor Reyes, Dacil Barreto, Gustavo Marrero, Tomas Bautista, and Antonio Nunez "Evaluation of architectures for an ASP MPEG-4 decoder using a system-level design methodology", Proc. SPIE 5837, VLSI Circuits and Systems II, (30 June 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.608807

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