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.

• Author: Jörn Janneck; Ian D. Miller; David B. Parlour; Ghislain Roquier; Matthieu Wipliez; Mickaël Rauler
• Department/s: ELLIIT: the Linköping-Lund initiative on IT and mobile communication
• Publishing year: 2011
• Language: English
• Pages: 241-249
• Publication/Series: Journal of Signal Processing Systems
• Volume: 63
• Issue: 2
• Full text: - 433 kB; Download statistics
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11265-009-0397-5
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Springer
• Topic: Computer Science
• Status: Published
• Research group: EDSLab
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1939-8115