Performance Analysis for MPEG-4 Video Codec Based on On-Chip Network

ETRI Journal

关键词: on-chip bus;    MPEG-4 codec;    on-chip network;    platform-based design;    SoC design;   

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DOI  :  10.4218/etrij.05.0905.0025

【 摘 要 】

In this paper, we present a performance analysis for an MPEG-4 video codec based on the on-chip network communication architecture. The existing on-chip buses of system-on-a-chip (SoC) have some limitation on data traffic bandwidth since a large number of silicon IPs share the bus. An on-chip network is introduced to solve the problem of on-chip buses, in which the concept of a computer network is applied to the communication architecture of SoC. We compared the performance of the MPEG-4 video codec based on the on-chip network and Advanced Micro-controller Bus Architecture (AMBA) on-chip bus. Experimental results show that the performance of the MPEG-4 video codec based on the on-chip network is improved over 50% compared to the design based on a multi-layer AMBA bus.

   

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