An energy-efficient FDCT/IDCT configurable IP core for mobile multimedia platforms

  • Authors:
  • Vinícius dos Santos Livramento;Bruno George de Moraes;Brunno Abner Machado;Jose Luis Almada Güntzel

  • Affiliations:
  • Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil;Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil;Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil;Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 24th symposium on Integrated circuits and systems design
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The development of mobile multimedia devices follows the platform-based design methodology in which IP cores are the building blocks. In the context of mobile devices there is a concern of battery lifetime which leads to the need of energy-efficient IP cores. This paper presents an energy-efficient FDCT/IDCT configurable IP core. Synthesis for 90 nm resulted in 50 MHz as maximum frequency and 1.66 mW as total power, achieving a throughput of 188.2 Mpixels/s, which is enough to process two HDTV@1080p videos in real time. The IP core architecture is based on Massimino's algorithm, which was chosen for its accuracy and parallelism. The exploration of its parallelism resulted in a fully-combinational 1-D FDCT/IDCT configurable datapath. In addition, the IP core is IEEE-1180 compliant. Comparisons with related work, in terms of energy efficiency (mJ/Mpixel), revealed that our architecture is at least 64% more efficient than other DCT architectures.