Scalable Linear Array Architecture with Data-Driven Control for Ultrahigh-Speed Vector Quantization

  • Authors:
  • Ding-Ming Kwai;Behrooz Parhami

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560, USA;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560, USA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems - Parallel VLSI architectures for image and video processing
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Current and future requirements for adaptive real-time image compression challenge even the capabilities of highly parallel realizations in terms of hardware performance. Previously proposed linear array structures for full-search vector quantization do not offer scalability and adaptivity in this context, because they require separate data/control pins for dynamically updating the codevectors and complicated interlock mechanisms to ensure that the regular data flow is not corrupted as a result of updates. We explore the design space for full-search vector quantizers and propose a novel linear processor array architecture in which global wiring is limited to clock and power supply distribution, thus allowing high-speed processing in spite of only limited communication with the host via the boundary processors. The resulting fully pipelined design is not only area-efficient for VLSI implementation but is also readily scalable and offers extremely high performance.