• NrcArch
• 2007-01-12

Jan 12, 2007

ARMO Meeting Minutes

H.264

Chun-Chieh

• working on thesis. Prepared first draft of thesis and submitted to Arvind
• running simulation using verilog. Simulation takes a long time
• reduced cycle count from 26 million to 22 million. About 1.2 cycles/pixel

Daniel

• changing macroblock ordering
• not only processing diagonal blocks, but also consecutive
• synthesizing verilog to estimate power
• verifying to make sure it does not violate dependency

802.11a

Alfred

• RX works at RTL level, but there seems to be problem at gate level. Timing is violated.
• Daniel suggest that possible cause could be register initializtion
• Arvind raised concerns about slow progress of RX design
• Al is not just implementing basic functionality to get RX running. He is putting more effort on parallelism and design optimization.
• More effort is spent on parameterizing the OFDM design
• Alfred will focus on two things: generalizing OFDM components, writing a paper for memocode
• Alfred and Gopal will meet again next week to discuss about OFDM parameterization

SMASH

• formalizing transcator scheduling problem
• analyzing simultaneous resource sharing problem
• using transactor implementation of JPEG
• fixing linux bootup problems on qemu arm simulator

Tech Day

• 2 posters already submitted
• h.264 demo, with inter-prediction on larger frame buffer
• 802.11 fpga part is not done yet. Alfred will try to work on this next week. If we have the loopback test ready by 19th we can show a demo

NRCC-MIT Jan 29th meeting

• total 40 min presentation for ARMO
• overview presentation
• H.264 (Chun-Chieh and Daniel)
• OFDM (Al)
• SMASH