Supporting reconfigurable parallel multimedia applications

  • Authors:
  • Maik Nijhuis;Herbert Bos;Henri E. Bal

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam;Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam;Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  • Venue:
  • Euro-Par'06 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Parallel Processing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Programming multimedia applications for System-on-Chip (SoC) architectures is difficult because streaming communication, user event handling, reconfiguration, and parallelism have to be dealt with. We present Hinch, a runtime system for multimedia applications, that efficiently exploits parallelism by running the application in a dataflow style. The application has to be implemented as components that communicate using streams. Reconfigurability is supported by a generic component interface. Measurements have been performed on a SpaceCake SoC architecture simulator. Hinch can easily be ported to other shared-memory architectures.