An Analysis Tool Set for Reconfigurable Media Processing

摘要

Existing media processing solutions such as general purpose processors with media acceleration support or application specific hardware units fail to satisfy the constraints of low p ower, l ess s ilicon a rea and v arying computing demands of the applications. Our research effort aids the design of a dynamically reconfigurable processor through the use of a set of analysis and design tools. This paper describes a part of the first of a set of three tools. These are intended to help hardware and system designers arrive at optimal hardware software co-designs for applications of a given class. The reconfigurable computing devices thus designed, will be able to adapt the underlying hardware dynamically in response to changes in the input data or processing environment.