Development Of Soft Core Processor For Computation Of 2D-DCT

Abstract

Recent years image processing is very essential in all sectors. Image compression technique is most important in multimedia application. There are various compression techniques in image processing, it gives compressed image which reduce data size and memory requirement. Many transformation techniques are used for image and video compression. These transformation based systems are transforming N×N image block into respective domain. These transformation techniques demands huge computation and energy efficiency which are must to accomplish within a moment. For completing these demands multi core processing system on chip is used. It is widely used to exploit parallelism for numerous applications for achieving good result and real time approach soft core processor can be implemented. Hardware can be used with software reconfiguration to make flexible design. Keywords — compression techniques, soft core processor, FPGAI.

INTRODUCTION

Customers have quickly become accustomed to the high standard of today’s information technology, and their demands continue to grow. The implementation of a two dimensional (2D) Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) fast re-configurability, either partially or totally which provides the possibility of swapping in and out designs in the time domain, so that a designer can meet requirements, with a minimal amount of resource. According to the JPEG standard these coefficients are being compressed in a next step by applying a specific procedure. It is widely used as feature extraction or dimensionality reduction method in pattern recognition applications, in image watermarking and data hiding and in various image processing applications. Using soft processors is an increasingly encountered trend in real-time embedded system design.

Nowadays, more and more embedded systems are using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to control and process data by making use of parallelism and flexibility concepts of FPGAs. Designers have to selects the proper type of FPGAs and implement the correct amount and type of peripherals that are needed for the requirements of their application, having also the freedom of changing them while the design process is continuing. FPGA is flexible because its parameters can be changed at any time by reprogramming the device. Traditionally, systems have been built using general-purpose processors implemented as Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC), placed on printed circuit boards that may have included FPGAs if flexible user logic was required. Using soft-core processors, such systems can be integrated on a single FPGA chip, assuming that the soft-core processor provides adequate performance. Soft core processors are more advantageous than their hard-core counterparts due to their reduced cost and flexibility of reconfiguring the same core as the application changes.

LITERATURE SURVEY

Mariem Makni [1] this paper proposes the Comparison and Performance Evaluation of FPGA Soft-cores for Embedded Multi-core Systems, presents a great challenge for designers to select the most efficient and the suitable soft-core for a specific software application. It presents an overview of soft-core processors that are used in embedded systems. This compare different open-source and commercial soft-cores such as openFire, LEON3, Microblaze, etc, based on major architectural features. We also evaluate the impact of the selected soft-core processors on the total execution time and the FPGA area consumption using different applications. Second system designed by Ravi Jani1, Kunjal Mehta [2] Fast Fourier Transform implementation using Microblaze and uclinux, states that in certain multimedia and signal processing application the FPGA's computational capacity proves to be inadequate. To overcome this limitation the designers have come up with number of approaches. Two of the approaches have been implemented.

One approach is hardware based approach and the other is software based approach. The hardware based approach refers to resorting to multiprocessor architecture to enhance or multiply the performance of System on Chip. Another approach which is software based is useful in case hardware capacity of the FPGA is limited. Ronald Scrofano, Ju-Wook Jang, Viktor K. Prasanna [3] this paper proposes the Energy-Efficient Discrete Cosine Transform on FPGAs, states that the 2-D discrete cosine transform (DCT) is an integral part of video and image processing; it is used in both the JPEG and MPEG encoding standards. As streaming video is brought to mobile devices, it becomes important that it is possible to calculate the DCT in an energy-efficient manner. They present a new algorithm and processing element (PE) architecture for computing the DCT with a linear array of PEs. This design is optimized for energy efficiency. They analyze the energy, area, and latency trade-offs available with this design and then compare its energy dissipation, area, and latency to those of Xilinx’s optimized IP core.

The system proposed by D.W. Trainor, J.P. Heron and R.F. Woods [4] Implementation of the 2D DCT using a XILINX XC6264 FPGA, presents a novel FPGA implementation of a two dimensional (8x8) point Discrete Cosine Transform. It is shown how the development of a suitable architectural style can produce high quality circuit designs for a specific technology, in this case the Xilinx XC6200 series of FPGA. Distributed arithmetic and exploitation of parallelism and pipelining are used to produce a DCT implementation on a single FPGA that operates at 25 frames per second with Video Graphics array VGA resolution which is the equivalent of 2 million multiplications or additions.

El Hassan El Mimouni, Mohammed Karim [5] this paper proposes a Soft Processor MicroBlaze-Based Embedded System for Cardiac Monitoring, aims to contribute to the efforts of design community to demonstrate the effectiveness of the state of the art Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), in the embedded systems development, taking a case study in the biomedical field. With this design approach, they have developed a System on Chip (SoC) for cardiac monitoring based on the soft processor MicroBlaze and the Xilkernel Real Time Operating System (RTOS), both from Xilinx. The system permits the acquisition and the digitizing of the Electrocardiogram (ECG) analog signal, displaying heart rate on seven segments module and ECG on Video Graphics Adapter (VGA) screen, tracing the heart rate variability (HRV) tachogram, and communication with a Personal Computer (PC) via the serial port. Shrikant Jadhav, Christopher Doss, Clay Gloster, Youngsoo Kim [6] Acceleration Framework using MicroBlaze Soft-core Processors on FPGAs, states that Offloading the complex computational kernel from the processor is the common way to improve performance of embedded system. In this work, acceleration framework using MicroBlaze soft- core processor is designed and implemented. In acceleration framework MicroBlaze is coupled with co-processor with the help of communication bus. They can attach the co-processor to our design that can handle the computation part. This co-processor helps to offload the burden on the MicroBlaze and thus reduces clock cycles needed for computation.

S.E.Tsai, andS.M.Yang [7] A Fast DCT Algorithm for Watermarking,. This paper proposes fast discrete cosine transform (FDCT) algorithm that used the energy compactness and matrix sparseness properties infrequency domain to achieve higher computation performance. For a JPEG image of8×8block size in spatial domain, the algorithm decomposes the two-dimensional (2D) DCT into one pair of one-dimensional(1D)DCTs with transform computation in only 24 multiplications. The 2D spatial data is a linear combination of the base image obtained by the outer product of the column and row vectors of cosine function the inverse DCT is as efficient. Implementation of the FDCT algorithm shows that embedding a watermarking image of 32×32 block pixel size in a 256×256 digital image can be completed.

Ankita Selokar, A.C.Kailuke [8] FPGA Implementation of Forward 2D-DCT and Inverse 2D-DCT Based On Row-Column Decomposition Method. This paper represents the FPGA implementation of 2D forward DCT and inverse DCT. 2D-DCT is computed by combining two 1D-DCT that connected by a transpose buffer. Firstly implemented the forward 1D-DCT row wise that requires addition, subtraction, registers and multipliers, and then column wise. For inverse 1D-DCT we implemented 1D-DCT column wise and then row wise. It possesses features and thus well suited for VLSI implementation. It can be used for the computation of either the forward or the inverse 2D DCT. Then synthesized onto a Xilinx14.2 ISE device S.Varkeessheeba [9] Performance Evaluation of Various Discrete Cosine Transforms this paper compares the performance of various discreet cosine transforms in terms of power consumption and accuracy.

CONCLUSION

After reviewing from the aforementioned source, it seems that the many researchers had gone through various transformation techniques perform with single core implement system on chip. Today’s world image processing is very essential, but all transformation techniques demand high computations which requires large memory space and high processing time which is not feasible for overcome these problems we have to design such system which parallelizing tasks or algorithms to boost performance and simultaneously giving a reduced resources footprint. Implement multicore processor system on chip for efficient computation of transformation technique.

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