H_decoderonCellBE.pptVIP

A Scalable Parallel H.264 Decoder on the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture Michael A. Baker, Pravin Dalale, Karam S. Chatha, Sarma B. K. Vrudhula Arizona State University CODES+ISSS (The International Conference on Hardware-Software Codesign and System Synthesis) 2009 Outline Introduction and Motivation Opportunities for Parallelization in H.264 Implementation Performance Optimizations Experimental Results Conclusion Motivation Multicore Architectures Scalability: more cores = more performance H.264 Standard for video applications including High Definition(HD) Computationally expensive