Jan 05, 2007
ARMO Meeting Minutes
H.264
Chun-Chieh
- exploration of interpolator to have extra stage
- pipelined inverse transform and moved to do have another direct connection from CAVLC to inter prediction. This hopefully reduces some blocking effect
- performance didn't improve even after pipelining. Suspected bluesim. Seems to work better in verilog
- 2x speed-up after optimization
Elliot
- SRAM running in verilog
- porting to bluespec
- deblocking filter is big, CC is reducing size to fit on board
- alternatively we can use distributed RAM
- use regfile with no more than one read/write in parallel. Achieves better data compression
Murali
- DRAM verilog shim done
- bluespec version will be done next week
- Controller not done yet
Daniel
- multiple interblock works
- reordering macroblock in bit stream to execute things in parallel
- verifying out-of-order execution and analyzing dependency between blocks
802.11
Alfred
- verilog simulation to get accurate power measurement
- using design compiler. analyzing switching activities
- reading papers. plans to implement channel estimator
Jamey
- Was able to compile and fit the 802.11a design on Altera FPGA
Gopal
- implemented first version of scalable fft
- needs testing and pipelining for efficiency
- analyzing and reading 3.9G and wimax docs from WP
SMASH
Jae
- using JPEG decoder with 6 transactors in xbs framework
- noticed h.264.ref in spec benchmark
Nirav
- gathering some thoughts about scheduling
looking at Orc -> Bluespec mapping
- working on Mishra's airline reservation problem
Tech Day Demo
- Nokia Tech Day on Jan 25th at Helsinki
- posters already submitted
- need to have Demos ready by Jan 19th