Title
Architecture of a polymorphic ASIC for interoperability across multi-mode H.264 decoders
Abstract
Run-time interoperability between different applications based on H.264/AVC is an emerging need in networked infotainment, where media delivery must match the desired resolution and quality of the end terminals. In this paper, we describe the architecture and design of a polymorphic ASIC to support this. The H.264 decoding flow is partitioned into modules, such that the polymorphic ASIC meets the design goals of low-power, low-area, high flexibility, high throughput and fast interoperability between different profiles and levels of H.264. We demonstrate the idea with a multi-mode decoder that can decode baseline, main and high profile H.264 streams and can interoperate at run.time across these profiles. The decoder is capable of processing frame sizes of up to 1024 times 768 at 30 fps. The design synthesized with UMC 0.13 mum technology, occupies 250 k gates and runs at 100 MHz.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/ASAP.2008.4580193
Leuven
Keywords
Field
DocType
application specific integrated circuits,open systems,video coding,H.264/AVC,media delivery,multimode H.264 decoders,multimode decoder,networked infotainment,polymorphic ASIC,run-time interoperability
Architecture,Computer science,Interoperability,Parallel computing,Application-specific integrated circuit,Real-time computing,Throughput,Decoding methods,Open system (systems theory)
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2160-0511 E-ISBN : 978-1-4244-1898-5
978-1-4244-1898-5
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
9
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Adrsha, R.110.39
Mythri Alle2878.34
Nandy, S.K.3437.29
Ranjani Narayan415521.06