Project Design

Most challenging design applications involve the development of moderate to complex algorithms and hardware architectures that configure these algorithms efficiently. In Chapter 11, we learnt how to develop algorithms for a number of projects, namely, the discrete cosine transform and quantization, the automatic quality control system based on pruning level control and the fast one at a time step search for motion estimation for image/video compression systems. The next logical step is to check the concepts involved in the algorithm without worrying about the hardware that is required for implementation. Once the concepts are proven to be correct by coding and testing in a high level language such as the Matlab or C, as presented in Chapter 11, one can confidently embark on more involved design of architecture with actual hardware in mind. These architectural design aspects were elaborated in Chapter 12.