HW/SW Codesign of the MPEG-2 Video Decoder

  • Authors:
  • Matjaz Verderber;Andrej Zemva;Andrej Trost

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IPDPS '03 Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose the optimized real-time MPEG-2 video decoder. The decoder has been implemented in one FPGA device as a HW/SW partitioned system. We made timing/power-consumption analysis and optimization of the MPEG-2 decoder. On the basis of the achieved results, we decided for hardware implementation of the IDCT and VLD algorithms. Remaining parts were realized in software with 32-bit RISC processor. MPEG-2 decoder (RISC processor, IDCT core, VLD core) has been described in high-level Verilog/VHDL hardware description language and implemented in Virtex 1600E FPGA. Finally, the decoder has been tested on the Flextronics prototyping board.