Design space exploration of a 2-D DWT system architecture

Abstract

This paper proposes a programmable 2-D DWT system architecture designed for the JPEG-2000 standard. The proposed system architecture, derived from an iterative design space exploration process using Altera's C2H compiler, provides a significant performance acceleration of 2-D DWT when compared to an optimized 2-D DWT software implementation and is capable of real-time video processing performance up to 720p (1280 × 720) image resolutions when synthesized and tested on an Altera DE3 Stratix III FPGA board.