Early Performance Analysis of Fully Pipelined JPEG Engine in the Simulation Environment

JPEG image compressions standard finds itself in most of the digital imaging or photography applications. With the technology moving towards high quality imaging and also the need for faster response times between multiple image compressions and decompressions, it poses the challenge on design of hardware compression and decompression engines. Performance of these hardware JPEG engines is of at most importance when they are used in either handheld devices like high end digital cameras or even in case of smart phones and tablets. In this paper we present the need for such analysis, the setup required for the same and real time scenarios which could affect the throughput of the JPEG engine. We also present our detailed real-time performance analysis of the JPEG engine in terms of throughput measurement, correlation to number of frames of image that can be processed per second and also the experimental results captured for various image formats like grayscale, RGB and YCbCr.