Parallel pass based BPC design in JPEG2000

JPEG2000 will be the international standard to continuous-tone still image coding in next generation. JPEG2000 algorithm is different from JPEG algorithm in filtering and entropy coding. In this thesis, we propose BPC hardware design based on parallel pass to improve performance. Hardware module which performs the bit plane coding (BPC) operation is designed by Verilog-HDL and synthesized by QuartusII. As a result of implementing BPC hardware, a speed gain of about 2 times is achieved when a process did BPC by based on serial pass.