An MPEG4 Simple Profile Decoder on a Novel Multicore Architecture

Video signal processing algorithms are characterized by high computational complexity and high memory throughput. Since the multicore architectures can provide high computational capacity and high throughput, they suit the video processing applications very well. However, it is very difficult to deal with the increasing design complexity and cost of the multicore system. For video processing application, a generic and flexible video processing multicore platform is essentially required to meet the varying requirements for a wide variety of video standards. In this paper, a novel flexible heterogeneous multicore architecture system is proposed. An MPEG4 simple profile decoder is implemented on the multicore architecture. The decoding performance demonstrates that the proposed architecture is substantially efficient for video processing applications and it is a generic and flexible media-processing design platform.