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Memory efficient architecture for 2-D DWT

GAO Jiaming1;LIANG Yu1;ZHANG Wei1;LIU Yanyan2   

  1. (1. School of Microelectronics, Tianjin Univ., Tianjin 300072, China;
    2. School of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Nankai Univ., Tianjin 300071, China)
  • Received:2017-05-08 Online:2018-04-20 Published:2018-06-06

Abstract:

Two-dimensional (2-D) Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is a commonly used method in digital signal processing, image analysis and image compression. Due to its large amounts of computation, it is often implemented in a hardware circuit. In general, the hardware architectures have a large input RAM and large hardware resources, which restrict the improvement of system hardware efficiency. Therefore, a memory efficient 2-D DWT architecture based on the lifting scheme is proposed in this paper. The order of input data is adjusted, horizontal parallel scanning and data dislocation 3-input method are introduced in this work for reducing hardware resources and eliminating the off-chip RAM. For an image size of N×N, the total ram requirement of the proposed architecture is reduced to 9N bytes. The estimated hardware requirement shows that at least 8% less transistor count-delay-product (TDP) can be saved compared with the existing architectures.

Key words: discrete wavelet transforms, very large scale integration, integrated circuit design, data dislocation method, off-chip random access memory less