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Application Specific Processor Design for H.264 Decoder with a Configurable Embedded Processor
Jin Ho Han, Mi Young Lee, Younghwan Bae, and Hanjin Cho
Abstract :	An application specific processor for an H.264 decoder with a configurable embedded processor is designed in this research. The motion compensation, inverse integer transform, inverse quantization, and entropy decoding algorithm of H.264 decoder software are optimized. We improved the performance of the processor with instruction-level hardware optimization, which is tailored to configurable embedded processor architecture. The optimized instructions for video processing can be used in other video compression standards such as MPEG 1, 2, and 4. A significant performance improvement is achieved with high flexibility. Experimental results show that we could achieve 300% performance for the H.264 baseline profile level 2 decoder.
Key word :	Embedded processor, application-specific processor, configurable processor, H.264 video decoder, instruction selection algorithm
DOI :	http://dx.doi.org/10.4218/etrij.05.0905.0001
Cite this :	Jin Ho Han, Mi Young Lee, Younghwan Bae, and Hanjin Cho, "Application Specific Processor Design for H.264 Decoder with a Configurable Embedded Processor," ETRI Journal, vol. 27, no. 5, Oct. 2005, pp. 491-496. http://dx.doi.org/10.4218/etrij.05.0905.0001
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