Design of Fractal Image Compression on SOC

The technological revolution during the last years has carried out a great evolution especially in the multimedia domain. Nowadays, almost everyone benefits from various video applications such as TV broadcasting and video conferencing. This progress involves particularly an increase in the capacity of digital data transmission. As a result, data compression became increasingly significant for storage and transmission. In this paper, we present an algorithm for fractal image compression based on SOC in real time. The algorithm consists of a hardware and software part. The hardware part supports an expensive calculation; therefore it is conceived on RTL level. The coding algorithm was implemented on the Altera chart STRATIX-I. The functional blocks were implemented with clock rate of 410 MHz with a maximum flow data input of 13.2 Gbit/s.