Exploring the implementation of JPEG compression on FPGA : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Engineering in Electronics and Computer Systems Engineering at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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2012
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This thesis presents an implementation of JPEG compression on a Field Programmable
Gate Array (FPGA) as the data are streamed from a camera. The goal was to minimise
the usage of logic resources of the FPGA and the latency at each stage of the JPEG
compression. The modules of these architectures are fully pipelined to enable continuous
operation on streamed data. The designed architectures are detailed in this thesis and they
were described in Handel-C. The correctness of each JPEG module implemented on
Handel-C was validated using MATLAB.
The software and hardware based algorithms did result in small differences in the
compressed images as a result of simplifying the arithmetic in hardware. However, these
differences were small, with no discernible difference in image quality between hardware
and software compressed images.
The JPEG compression algorithm has been successfully implemented and tested on
Altera DE2-115 development board. Improvements were made by minimising the
latency, and increasing the performance. Final implementation also showed that
implementing a quantisation module in three stage pipeline fashion and using FPGA
multipliers for 1D-DCT and 2D-DCT can significantly drop the logic resources and
increase the performance speed. The proposed JPEG compressor architecture has a
latency of 114 clock cycles plus 7 image rows and has a maximum clock speed of
55.77MHz. The results obtained from this implementation were very satisfactory.
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Field programmable gate arrays, Computer-aided design, Image compression, JPEG (Image coding standard)