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ESTIMEDIA
2009
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Efficient execution of Kahn process networks on multi-processor systems using protothreads and windowed FIFOs
As single-processor systems are ceasing to scale effectively, multi-processor systems are becoming more and more popular. While there are many challenges of designing multi-process...
Wolfgang Haid, Lars Schor, Kai Huang, Iuliana Baci...
ESTIMEDIA
2009
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Optimal stack frame placement and transfer for energy reduction targeting embedded processors with scratch-pad memories
Abstract--Memory accesses are a major cause of energy consumption for embedded systems and the stack is a frequent target for data accesses. This paper presents a fully software te...
Lovic Gauthier, Tohru Ishihara
ESTIMEDIA
2009
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Inter-kernel data reuse and pipelining on chip-multiprocessors for multimedia applications
The increasing demand for low power and high performance multimedia embedded systems has motivated the need for effective solutions to satisfy application bandwidth and latency req...
Luis Angel D. Bathen, Yongjin Ahn, Nikil D. Dutt, ...
ESTIMEDIA
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Robust image processing for an omnidirectional camera-based smart car door
Abstract--Over the last one decade there has been an increasing emphasis on driver-assistance systems for the automotive domain. In this paper we report our work on designing a cam...
Christian Scharfenberger, Samarjit Chakraborty, Ge...
ESTIMEDIA
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
System-level MP-SoC design space exploration using tree visualization
— The complexity of today’s embedded systems forces designers to model and simulate systems and their components to explore the wide range of design choices. Such design space ...
Toktam Taghavi, Andy D. Pimentel, Mark Thompson
ESTIMEDIA
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
QoS management of dynamic video tasks by task splitting and skipping
—We have integrated processing with deterministic and non-deterministic resource usage in an overall application and evaluated its performance on a multi-core processor platform....
Rob Albers, Eric Suijs, Peter H. N. de With
ESTIMEDIA
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The wizard of OS: a heartbeat for Legacy multimedia applications
—Multimedia applications are often characterised by implicit temporal constraints but, in many cases, they are not programmed using any specialised real-time API. These “Legacy...
Tommaso Cucinotta, Luca Abeni, Luigi Palopoli, Fab...
ESTIMEDIA
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Software parallel CAVLC encoder based on stream processing
—Real-time encoding of high-definition H.264 video is a challenge to current embedded programmable processors. Emerging stream processing methods supported by most GPUs and progr...
Ju Ren, Yi He, Wei Wu, Mei Wen, Nan Wu, Chunyuan Z...
ESTIMEDIA
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Exploring trade-offs between performance and resource requirements for synchronous dataflow graphs
Yang Yang, Marc Geilen, Twan Basten, Sander Stuijk...