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Hardware/Software Codesign and Applications of a Power Efficient MPEG Video Decoder. John Chan. Electrical and Computer Engineering Department State University of New York at Stony Brook. Edwin Nuez. David Rodriguez. Pritpal Singh. Advisor: Professor Alex Doboli.
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Hardware/Software Codesign and Applications of a Power Efficient MPEG Video Decoder John Chan Electrical and Computer Engineering Department State University of New York at Stony Brook Edwin Nuez David Rodriguez Pritpal Singh Advisor: Professor Alex Doboli
What is Hardware/Software Codesign? Codesign TRADITIONAL Software Hardware System
Degrees of Freedom • Voltage • Physical Capacitance • Activity
Power Optimization • Circuit / Logic • Logic Styles + Manipulation,Transistor Sizing, Energy Recovery • Layout • Partitioning, Power-down, Power States • Architectural • Parallelism, Pipelining, Redundancy, Data Encoding • Algorithmic • Complexity, Concurrency, Regularity, Locality • Technology • Threshold Reduction, Double Threshold
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Low power consumption Fast MPEG decoding Applications Advantages: What Application could take advantage of Codesign?
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