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Evaluation of SIMD architecture enhancement in embedded processors for MPEG-4

Iranpour, Ali LU and Kuchcinski, Krzysztof LU orcid (2004) Proceedings of the Euromicro Symposium on Digital System Design p.262-269
Abstract
This paper presents our studies on the effects of using SIMD processor extension developed to enhance the processor performance for streaming applications. Our approach was evaluated using MPEG-4 encoding application as benchmark. Although MPEG-4 consists of many different operations, we concentrated on the sum of absolute differences (SAD), a major part of the motion estimation. The SAD was chosen because it is one of the most frequently used operations in MPEG-4 encoding. It is estimated to consume between 40%-80% of the total video encoding time when implemented on a general purpose processor. We have performed an extensive evaluation of our architecture extension. This evaluation showed that it is possible to achieve high performance... (More)
This paper presents our studies on the effects of using SIMD processor extension developed to enhance the processor performance for streaming applications. Our approach was evaluated using MPEG-4 encoding application as benchmark. Although MPEG-4 consists of many different operations, we concentrated on the sum of absolute differences (SAD), a major part of the motion estimation. The SAD was chosen because it is one of the most frequently used operations in MPEG-4 encoding. It is estimated to consume between 40%-80% of the total video encoding time when implemented on a general purpose processor. We have performed an extensive evaluation of our architecture extension. This evaluation showed that it is possible to achieve high performance with acceptable power consumption. We obtained about two times performance improvement for MPEG-4 encoding with roughly the same power consumption (Less)
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video encoding, power consumption, embedded processors, SIMD architecture, MPEG-4 encoding, streaming applications, motion estimation, sum of absolute differences
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Proceedings of the Euromicro Symposium on Digital System Design
pages
262 - 269
publisher
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
conference name
Proceedings of the Euromicro Symposium on Digital System Design
conference location
Rennes, France
conference dates
2004-08-31 - 2004-09-03
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  • wos:000224458900035
  • scopus:13944279911
ISBN
0-7695-2203-3
DOI
10.1109/DSD.2004.1333286
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English
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  abstract     = {{This paper presents our studies on the effects of using SIMD processor extension developed to enhance the processor performance for streaming applications. Our approach was evaluated using MPEG-4 encoding application as benchmark. Although MPEG-4 consists of many different operations, we concentrated on the sum of absolute differences (SAD), a major part of the motion estimation. The SAD was chosen because it is one of the most frequently used operations in MPEG-4 encoding. It is estimated to consume between 40%-80% of the total video encoding time when implemented on a general purpose processor. We have performed an extensive evaluation of our architecture extension. This evaluation showed that it is possible to achieve high performance with acceptable power consumption. We obtained about two times performance improvement for MPEG-4 encoding with roughly the same power consumption}},
  author       = {{Iranpour, Ali and Kuchcinski, Krzysztof}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings of the Euromicro Symposium on Digital System Design}},
  isbn         = {{0-7695-2203-3}},
  keywords     = {{video encoding; power consumption; embedded processors; SIMD architecture; MPEG-4 encoding; streaming applications; motion estimation; sum of absolute differences}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{262--269}},
  publisher    = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
  title        = {{Evaluation of SIMD architecture enhancement in embedded processors for MPEG-4}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/DSD.2004.1333286}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/DSD.2004.1333286}},
  year         = {{2004}},
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