An Analysis Tool Set for Reconfigurable Media Processing

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 power, less silicon area and varying 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 codesigns 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.