DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING Part IV Project Report Group 57 2003 MULTIMEDIA EXTENSION TO A RECONFIGURABLE PROCESSOR

II STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY III ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IV TABLE OF CONTENTS V LIST OF FIGURES VII LIST OF TABLES VIII 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Project Objectives and Rationale 1 1.2 Project Specifications and Scope 2 1.3 Project Overview 3 1.4 Report Overview 3 2.0 OVERVIEW OF MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS 4 2.1 Characteristics of Multimedia Applications 4 2.2 Overview of MPEG and JPEG 5 2.2.1 Breakdown of the main MPEG-2 Operations 6 2.2.2 Breakdown of the main MPEG-4 Operations 7 2.2.3 Breakdown of the main JPEG Operations 8 2.3 Instruction Mix in Multimedia Applications 9 2.4 Subword Parallelisms and SIMD 10 2.5 Comparisons of Common Multimedia Extensions 11 2.5.1 Discussion of Common Multimedia Extensions 12 2.6 Multimedia Extension and Alternative Options 13 3.0 GENERAL DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS 14 3.1 Target Development Platform 14 3.2 Custom Logic Blocks 15 3.3 Overview of Design Tools 16 4.0 EXTENDING THE NIOS INSTRUCTION SET 17 4.1 Multimedia Extension Instruction Set 17 4.2 Characteristics of the Multimedia Extension Instruction Set 18 4.3 Hierarchical Structure of the Multimedia Extension 20