Title
Compressed On-Chip Framebuffer Cache for Low-Power Display Systems.
Abstract
A framebuffer memory is data storage for the displayed image, which is one of the major power consumers in display systems. This paper proposes a power reduction technique for the on-chip framebuffer cache (FBC) performing a compressed image data management. The proposed architecture stores the compressed image data in the on-chip FBC, and the display controller decompresses the image data on the fly and sends it to the liquid crystal display panel. The compression and decompression processes incur additional power consumption but achieve lower system-wide power consumption. We implement the proposed architecture in a field-programmable gate array platform to confirm power saving by actual measurement. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed on-chip FBC significantly reduces the number of the off-chip framebuffer memory accesses and saves a large portion of the system-wide power consumption accordingly.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/TVLSI.2016.2636849
IEEE Trans. VLSI Syst.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Image coding,System-on-chip,Power demand,Memory management,Random access memory,Transform coding
Cache,Computer science,Computer data storage,Electronic engineering,Real-time computing,Memory management,Computer hardware,System on a chip,Framebuffer,Transform coding,Liquid-crystal display,Gate array,Embedded system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25
4
1063-8210
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
10
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Donkyu Baek1177.62
Naehyuck Chang21985185.85
Donghwa Shin339632.34