Hardware/Software Architectures for Low-Power Embedded Multimedia Systems

• Main Authors: Shafique, Muhammad (Author), Henkel, Jörg (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Energy.; Microprocessors.; Electronic circuits.; Circuits and Systems.; Processor Architectures.; Energy, general.

The extreme complexity/energy requirements and context-aware processing nature of multimedia applications stimulate the need for adaptive low-power embedded multimedia systems with high-performance. Run-time adaptivity is required to react to the run-time varying scenarios (e.g., quality and perform...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Background and Related Work
• Adaptive Low-Power Architectures for Embedded Multimedia Systems
• Adaptive Low-Power Video Coding
• Adaptive Low-Power Reconfigurable Processor Architecture
• Power Measurement of the Reconfigurable Processors
• Benchmarks and Results
• Conclusion and Outlook
• Appendix A: A Multi-Level Rate Control
• Appendix B: Simulation Environment the H.264 Video Encoder Demonstration
• Appendix C: The CES Video Analyzer Tool.