J. Janneck, Ian D. Miller, D. Parlour, Ghislain Roquier, M. Wipliez, M. Raulet
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Abstract
The MPEG Reconfigurable Video Coding working group is developing a new library-based process for building the reference codecs of future MPEG standards, which is based on dataflow and uses an actor language called CAL. The paper presents a code generator producing RTL targeting FPGAs for CAL, outlines its structure, and demonstrates its performance on an MPEG-4 Simple Profile decoder. The resulting implementation is smaller and faster than a comparable RTL reference design, and the second half of the paper discusses some of the reasons for this counter-intuitive result.