Vendor: Alma Technologies Category: Image Conversion

8/10/12-bit Extended JPEG Encoder with Optional Video Rate Control

The JPEG-E-X core is a standalone and high-performance 8-bit Baseline and 10/12-bit Extended JPEG encoder for still image and vid…

Overview

The JPEG-E-X core is a standalone and high-performance 8-bit Baseline and 10/12-bit Extended JPEG encoder for still image and video compression applications. Full compliance with the Baseline and the Extended Sequential DCT modes of the ISO/IEC 10918-1 JPEG standard makes the JPEG-E-X core ideal for interoperable systems and devices. The produced JPEG streams can also conform to the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) requirements. The JPEG-E-X is available for ASIC or AMD-Xilinx, Efinix, Intel, Lattice and Microchip FPGA and SoC based designs.

In addition to generating standalone Baseline or Extended JPEG streams, the encoder can also produce the (de-facto) standard video payload of many motion JPEG container formats. Furthermore, the bandwidth constrained applications can benefit from the optionally included video rate control block.

The core is designed with simple, fully flow-controllable and FIFO-like, streaming input and output interfaces. Being carefully designed, rigorously verified and silicon-proven, the JPEG-E-X is a reliable and easy-to-use and integrate IP.

Key features

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  • Complete, Compliant and Standalone Operation
    • 8-bit Baseline and 12-bit Extended JPEG encoder with full ISO/IEC 10918-1 compliance
    • Up to 64K x 64K image resolution
    • 1-4 image components, 8/10/12-bit per component
    • 1, 2 and 4 horizontal and vertical sampling factors support
    • Single- and multi-scan support
    • Programmable Quantization Tables (up to four)
    • Programmable Huffman Tables (two DC, two AC)
    • Programmable Restart Markers insertion
    • Complete and standalone Baseline JPEG stream output with user controllable marker inclusion
    • CPU-less operation
    • Single clock cycle per sample encoding throughput
  • Extra Capabilities
    • Programmable Quality Factor (1 to 100) for easy Quantization Tables scaling
    • DICOM JPEG conformance
    • Motion JPEG payload encoding
    • Optional block-based maximum output size control with independent Luminance and Chrominance bit thresholds
    • Optional high-quality and accurate video rate control
      • Automatic Quality Factor adjustment per frame
      • Programmable nominal compressed frame size
      • Programmable bandwidth shaping output buffer size
  • Ease of Integration
    • Simple, microcontroller like, programming interface
    • High-speed, flow controllable, streaming I/O data interfaces
      • Simple and FIFO like
      • Avalon-ST compliant (ready latency 0)
      • AXI4-Stream compliant
  • Trouble-Free Technology Map and Implementation
    • Fully portable, self-contained RTL source code
    • Strictly positive edge triggered design
    • D-type only Flip-Flops
    • Fully synchronous operation
    • No special timing constraints required
      • No false paths
      • No multi-cycle paths

Block Diagram

What’s Included?

  • Clear-text RTL sources for ASIC designs, or pre-synthesized and verified Netlist for FPGA and SoC devices
  • Release Notes, Design Specification and Integration Manual documents
  • Bit Accurate Model (BAM) and test vector generation binaries, including sample scripts
  • Pre-compiled RTL simulation model and gate-level simulation netlist for the FPGA Netlist license
  • Self-checking testbench environment sources, including sample BAM generated test cases
  • Simulation and sample Synthesis (for ASICs) or Place & Route (for FPGAs) scripts

Specifications

Identity

Part Number
JPEG-E-X
Vendor
Alma Technologies
Type
Silicon IP

Files

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Provider

HQ: Greece

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