Synthesizing hardware from dataflow programs

Summary, in English

Abstract in Undetermined
The MPEG Reconfigurable Video Coding
working group is developing a new library-based pro-
cess for building the reference codecs of future MPEG
standards, which is based on dataflow and uses an actor
language called Cal. The paper presents a code genera-
tor producing RTL targeting FPGAs for Cal, outlines
its structure, and demonstrates its performance on an
MPEG-4 Simple Profile decoder. The resulting imple-
mentation is smaller and faster than a comparable RTL
reference design, and the second half of the paper
discusses some of the reasons for this counter-intuitive
result.

• Författare: Jörn Janneck; Ian D. Miller; David B. Parlour; Ghislain Roquier; Matthieu Wipliez; Mickaël Rauler
• Avdelning/ar: ELLIIT: the Linköping-Lund initiative on IT and mobile communication
• Publiceringsår: 2011
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 241-249
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Journal of Signal Processing Systems
• Volym: 63
• Issue: 2
• Fulltext: - 433 kB; Download statistics
• Länkar: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11265-009-0397-5
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Förlag: Springer
• Ämne: Computer Science
• Status: Published
• Forskningsgrupp: EDSLab
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 1939-8115