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Final M.Tech(VLSI) Student, Dept of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Avanthi Institute of Engineering &
Technology, Narsipatnam, Andhra Pradesh
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Assistant Professor, Dept of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Avanthi Institute of Engineering & Technology,
Narsipatnam, Andhra Pradesh
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Head of Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Avanthi Institute of Engineering & Technology,
Narsipatnam, Andhra Pradesh
Abstract: Image compression is the hard task in the bit stream functionalities. We introduced highly scalable image compression algorithm based on the hierarchical trees.
Considering the band widths the bit stream in the image can lose the quality of the image. So using out proposed algorithm
SPIHT we can strengthening the bit stream of the image and the compression. In we used a co-processor Micro blaze and it is designed in the VHDL using XLINUX Design suite. The experimental results also presented in this paper.
I. INTRODUCTION
The original SPIHT algorithm processes wavelet coefficients in a dynamic order that depends on the values of the coefficients. Thus, it is not easy to process multiple coefficients in parallel; and consequently, it is difficult to improve the throughput of the original SPIHT. In order to increase the throughput, the SPIHT algorithm is modified such that the processing order is fixed statically (i.e., the processing order is independent of the values of the coefficients). Although a fixed-order SPIHT improves output and coding efficiency is degraded because its order is different from the order of the original SPIHT. No list SPIHT algorithm (NLS) is initially proposed for a fixed-order SPIHT algorithm to reduce the required memory.
Later, Corsonello et al. proposed a low cost implementation of NLS [15]. In [14] and [15], the modified algorithm uses an array data structure for storing coding states in the fixed order instead of the list data structure required for the dynamic order of the original SPIHT.
Although NLS succeeds in the reduction of the memory size, it does not process coefficients in parallel, so only 1 or 2 bits are produced at each step. Consequently, the throughput of
NLS is only 0.092 bit per cycle [15]. To improve the coding speed, Chen et al. [16] proposed a modified SPIHT that processes a 4 × 4 bit-plane in one cycle. However, this algorithm does not exploit pixel parallelism but processes multiple sequential steps in one cycle in its hardware implementation leading to a significant increase of the critical path delay in combinational logic circuits and obviously the operating clock frequency is limited although a 4 × 4 bitplane is processed in a single cycle. Thus, the overall throughput is also not very high.
Fry et al. [17] proposed a bit-plane parallel SPIHT encoder architecture. This modified SPIHT decomposes wavelet coefficients bit-plane by bit-plane and then processes multiple bit-planes independently in a parallel manner. Then, the results of multiple bit-planes are merged into a single bit stream. This bit-plane-parallel approach achieves very large throughput by processing four pixels in a single cycle.
However, there are two drawbacks. One is the low utilization of the parallel hardware and memory because the execution time of bit-plane coding differs from bit-plane to bit-plane. In addition, depending on the bit rate, the results from less significant bit-planes are truncated and are not merged into the final bit stream. The truncated bit stream implies that the hardware execution cycles used for the generation of the truncated bit-stream are wasted. The most highly serious drawback lies in the fact that this bit-plane parallel approach is not applicable to a decoder. For decoding in decoder multiple bit-planes cannot be decoded in parallel because the decoder cannot predict the length of each bit-plane, and consequently, cannot divide the bit-stream into multiple bit plane streams for parallel processing at the beginning of the decoding process. As the speed of a decoder is often more important than the encoder speed, the low decoding speed in the bit-plane parallel SPIHT severely limits the application of this algorithm.
In SPIHT algorithm aspect, many researchers proposed various modifications to improve performance of
SPIHT. There is some algorithms aim for better PSNR values and do not concern about hardware issues. Kassim [12] introduced a method for selecting an optimal wavelet packet transform (WPT) basis for SPIHT and it is efficiently compacts the high-frequency sub-band energy into as few trees as possible and avoids parental conflicts. In the existing methods proposed SPIHT-WPT coder achieved improved coding gains for highly textured images. Ansari [13] proposed a context based SPIHT (CSPIHT) method and it is used a segmentation and interactive method for selecting the contextual region of interest mask to achieve a better performance results in medical images. It is reduce memory
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International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT) – Volume 4 Issue 9- Sep 2013 and speed up SPIHT software and used one list to store the coordinates of wavelet coefficients instead of three lists of
SPIHT and merged the sorting pass with the refinement pass together as one scan pass. On the other side, Wheeler [15] proposed a modified SPIHT algorithm which does not use lists and there is no insert and search operations for list and speed of algorithm can be improved greatly.
In SPIHT implementation area, corresponding architectures are mainly designed for SPIHT algorithm without AC. The storage of the memory bands wavelet coefficients are used in SPIHT coder [16], [17]. But for some large width images and for example the satellite images are very difficult to integrate many memories on board in the memory bands architectures. Fry and Hauck [18] realized a configurable SPIHT coder with field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices and it can reach a throughput of 244
Mpixels/s. Huang [19] gave his SPIHT implementation architecture which modified the coefficient scanning process of SPIHT and used a 1-D addressing method for the wavelet coefficients. The throughput of [19] can be 30 frames per second with CIF images. Ritter [20] proposed an SPIHT coder with reduced access to random memory. Pan [21] proposed a listless modified SPIHT which reduced memory in hardware architecture.
Unfortunately, all of these architectures mentioned above did not give a detailed AC part description in their coders. However for some critical applications and it is an
AC part in SPIHT is nontrivial in order to further improve the performance. Therefore it is necessary to design a high speed
AC architecture for SPIHT. Based on the architecture there are three stages during implementation. The initial step for designing an AC in SPIHT is to set a context model suitable for hardware processing. In the context model it is designed in the QccPack-SPIHT by Fowler [22]. In the architecture, a simple context model based on the QccPackSPIHT software is designed and it is just exploits the relationship of nodes in one zerotree and establishes four types of context for current position value, current position sign, descendant set (D set) and grant descendant set (L set). The second step is to remove the internal loops of AC and arrange different modules for hardware and the final step is to connect all modules by different paths to build one AC.
The main features of this architecture can be summarized as follows.
1) The context state model which is based on the neighbor pixels’ significant states is designed for hardware implementation. In order to achieve high speed architecture and it adopts a fixed breadth first search scan order for SPIHT coding instead of variable scan order to avoid rescanning the wavelet coefficients. According to the scanning order we design a simple context model which just uses the brother nodes’ states in the coding tree for the fast processing purpose. The performance in PSNR values compared with the
Qcc-Pack SPIHT context model is slight through the experimental results.
2) According to the context model, different context symbols formed by SPIHT algorithm are processed in parallel by the arithmetic coder for the speedup purpose. In order to improve the throughput of our arithmetic coder and we utilize two methods to remove the bottlenecks in the whole image coding process. The best method is a bit-plane parallel scheme for all wavelet coefficient bit-planes and which changes the process order of bit-plane from sequential to parallel manner. There is another way is an out of order mechanism for the execution in the arithmetic coder. The order of order execution for multiple contexts and coding speed can be accelerated greatly and then architecture is able to consume multiple input symbols in one clock cycle.
3) In order to reduce memory size is an internal memory array is used for the cumulative probability values. Carry look-ahead adder (CLA) circuits are employed for the update of probability variables. Since the architecture uses an FPGA platform as prototype the plenty of flip-flops in the device can be used for the memory array instead of external RAM structure therefore the access time can be improved significantly for the internal memory array. At the same time critical path is shortened by the advanced calculation circuit structure and those are the CLA and fast multiplier-divider.
4) For power efficient design, a dedicated adaptive power management module is used to stop clocks for the invalid bitplane, which contains no information about the wavelet coefficients. And the memory access pattern is also compacted for power saving purpose.
II. RELATED WORK
Principal of arithmetic coding:
The entire data set is represented by a single rational number is placed between 0 and 1 and the range is divided into sub-intervals each representing a certain symbol.
Number of sub-intervals is identical to the number of symbols in the current set of symbols and the size is proportional to their probability of appearance. For every symbol in the original data a new interval division takes place on the basis of the last sub-interval.
Example Sub-Interval:
Probability Initial Intervals
X= 0.5 (50%) [0.0; 0.5)
Y= 0.3 (30%) [0.5; 0.8)
Z= 0.2 (20%) [0.8; 1.0)
Size Current Interval: 1.0
Start 'Y' 'X'
X [0.0, 0.5) [0.50, 0.65)  [0.500, 0.575)
Y [0.5, 0.8)  [0.65, 0.74) [0.575, 0.620)
Z [0.8, 1.0)  [0.74, 0.80) [0.620, 0.650)
Size Current Interval: 0.30 0.150
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Starting with the initial sub-division the symbol 'b' is coded with a number and it is greater or equal than 0.5 and less than 0.8. If the symbol 'b' would stand alone and any number from this interval could be selected. The encoding of the following symbol bases on the current interval (0.5, 0.8) which will be divided again into subintervals. If the second symbol is an 'a', then any number could be coded from the interval [0.50; 0.65). With any further symbol the last current interval have to be divided again and the number of significant digits of the code word increases continuously. Even if the accuracy of the number is increased permanently and it is not necessary to process the entire one and using the help of suitable algorithms parts that are no longer relevant can be eliminated.
In practical applications, conditional probabilities of symbols have better performance than non-conditional probabilities do. After that the context-based AC is widely used in the various fields and context means conditions for current symbol. The image coding is concerned and context refers to neighbor pixels’ states and after that the transform stage in compression and coefficients have the property of energy compaction. Then different coefficients form different context windows using a preset model and different contexts will be sent to independent coding parts for updating the interval and emitting the code bits.
III. PROPOSED WORK
The Micro Blaze is a soft processor core designed for
Xilinx FPGAs from Xilinx. As a soft-core processor and
Micro Blaze is implemented entirely in the general-purpose memory and logic fabric of Xilinx FPGAs and in terms of its instruction-set architecture the Micro Blaze is very similar to the RISC-based DLX architecture described in a popular computer architecture book by Patterson and Hennessy. With few exceptions the Micro Blaze can issue a new instruction every cycle and maintaining single-cycle throughput under most circumstances.
The Micro Blaze has a versatile interconnect system to support a variety of embedded applications. Micro Blaze's primary I/O bus and the Core Connect PLB bus is a traditional system-memory mapped transaction bus with master/slave capability. A newer version of the Micro Blaze is supported in both Spartan-6 and Virtex-6 implementations and as well as the 7-Series, supports the AXI specification.
More number of vendor-supplied and third-party IP interface to PLB directly (or through an PLB to OPB bus bridge.) For access to local-memory (FPGA BRAM), Micro Blaze uses a dedicated LMB bus
which reduces loading on the other buses. User-defined co-processors are supported through a dedicated FIFO-style connection called Fast
Simplex Link. The co-processor interface can accelerate computationally intensive algorithms by offloading parts or the entirety of the computation to a user-designed hardware module.
Many aspects of the Micro Blaze can be user configured: cache size, pipeline depth such as 3-stage or 5stage is embedded peripherals and the memory management unit and bus-interfaces can be customized. The areaoptimized version of Micro Blaze and it uses a 3-stage pipeline sacrifices the clock-frequency for reduced logic-area.
The performance is optimized version expands the executionpipeline to 5-stages are allowing top speeds of 210 MHz that is vertex family. It is also key processor instructions which are rarely used but more expensive to implement in hardware can be selectively added/removed that is multiply, divide, and floating-point. This customization enables a developer to make the appropriate design tradeoffs for a specific set of host hardware and application software requirements.
With the memory management unit, Micro Blaze is capable of hosting operating systems requiring hardwarebased paging and protection and such as the Linux kernel. It is limited to operating systems with a simplified protection and virtual memory-model: e.g.
Free RTOS or Linux not having MMU support. Micro Blaze's overall throughput is substantially less than a comparable hardened CPU-core
(such as the PowerPC440 in the Virtex-5.)
Xilinx Platform Studio (XPS) is a key component of the ISE Embedded Edition Design Suite is helping the hardware designer to easily build that connects and configures embedded processor-based systems from simple state machines to full-blown 32-bit RISC microprocessor systems. XPS employs graphical design views and sophisticated correct-by-design wizards to guide developers through the steps necessary to create custom processor systems within minutes. The potential of XPS emerges with its ability to configure and integrate plug and play IP cores from the Xilinx Embedded IP catalog with custom or 3rd party Verilog and VHDL designs. Present the highly-custom processors can be designed according to project-specific needs include peripheral and IO requirements, real-time responsiveness and general purpose processing power and the floating point performance on-chip or off-chip memory the minimal power consumption and much more. Firmware and software developers benefit from XPS integration with Xilinx
SDK which allows the automatic generation of critical system software such as boot loaders that bares metal BSP and Linux
BSPs. The capability results that OS porting and applications development can begin without delay caused by firmware development. Although many kinds of systems can be created from the peripherals available within the Xilinx catalog and it is often necessary to create and import custom peripherals for new functionality. The Xilinx Creates and then import
Peripheral wizard allows hardware designers to create AXI
(version 4) peripherals in Verilog or VHDL, or both (for a mixed-language design) and then to import them into an XPS projects for connection to any AXI4 Lite and AXI4 (Burst-
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PLB-based designs. Upon import into XPS the custom peripheral is managed just like any off-the-shelf module available from the Xilinx Embedded IP catalog. The creation of such firmware can be very challenging due to the strict dependencies between the firmware development and the custom hardware design and XPS avoids this problem by creation, software application creation and software verification. Base System Builder is the wizard that is used to automatically generate a hardware platform according to the user specifications that is defined by the MHS
(Microprocessor Hardware Specification) file. The MHS file defines the system architecture and the peripherals and embedded processors. The Platform Generation tool creates the hardware platform using the MHS file as input. The
HDL or Schematic
ISE
Add Embedded Source
XPS
XPS
Launches
Automatically
Design Entry
1. Create design and modify the design
Other Sources
Such as
-System Generator etc..
Export to
SDK
(.xml files only)
SDK
Create workspace
Create a new project/
Implementation into Bit stream Net list Generation Application development
Download to FPGA
Compile and run
Export to SDK such as xml files sharing hardware and the project and design-specific information with Xilinx SDK which is then able to automatically configure build and deploy critical designspecific firmware including.First stage boot loaders the
Security software and Bit stream Management. For Devices that have been drawn from the Xilinx Embedded IP catalog and SDK also auto-generates bare-metal drivers and BSP – for inclusion within OS-less code or RTOS and also Linux drivers and BSP. In this manner the XPS allows designers to largely ignore firmware and low-level BSP development that are otherwise required prior to proceeding with boot, OS and application development. A typical embedded system design project involves: hardware platform creation, hardware platform verification (simulation) and software platform
software platform is defined by MSS (Microprocessor
Software Specification) file which defines driver and library customization parameters for peripherals, processor customization parameters the standard 110 devices and the interrupt handler routines and other software related routines.
The MSS file is an input to the Library Generator tool for customization of drivers and the libraries and interrupts handlers. The creation of the verification platform is optional and is based on the hardware platform. The MHS file is input by the Simgen tool to create simulation files for a specific simulator and there are three types of simulation models can be generated by the Simgen tool contains behavioral the structural and timing models.
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There are two options available for debugging the application created using EDK namely: Xilinx Microprocessor
Debug (XMD) for debugging the application software using a
Microprocessor Debug Module (MDM) in the embedded processor system and the Software Debugger that invokes the software debugger corresponding to the compiler being used for the processor. The Software Development Kit Xilinx Platform Studio
Software Development Kit (SDK) is an integrated development environment, complimentary to XPS and that is used for C/C++ embedded software application creation and verification. SDK is built on the Eclipse opensource framework. Soft Development Kit
(SDK) is a suite of tools that enables you to design a software application for selected Soft IP Cores in the Xilinx Embedded
Development Kit (EDK). FPGA behaves like processor implemented on it in a Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Array
(FPGA) device.
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are semiconductor devices that are based around a matrix of configurable logic blocks (CLBs) connected via programmable interconnects. The FPGAs are reprogrammed to desired application or functionality requirements after manufacturing. This key feature distinguishes FPGAs from
Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), which are custom manufactured for specific design tasks. Due to their programmable nature the FPGAs are an ideal fit for many different markets. As the industry leader the Xilinx provides comprehensive solutions consisting of FPGA devices, advanced software, and configurable and ready-to-use IP cores for markets and applications such as:
 Aerospace & Defense - Radiation-tolerant FPGAs along with intellectual property for image processing the waveform generation and the partial reconfiguration for
SDRs.
 ASIC Prototyping - ASIC prototyping with FPGAs enables fast and accurate So the system modeling and verification of embedded software
 Audio - Xilinx FPGAs and targeted design platforms enable higher degrees of flexibility, faster time-to-market, and lower overall non-recurring engineering costs (NRE) for a wide range of audio, communications, and multimedia applications.
 Automotive - Automotive silicon and IP solutions for gateway and driver assistance systems that comfort the convenience and in-vehicle infotainment. - Learn how
Xilinx FPGA's enable Automotive Systems
 Broadcast - Adapt to changing requirements faster and lengthen product life cycles with Broadcast Targeted
Design Platforms and solutions for high-end professional broadcast systems.
 Consumer Electronics - Cost-effective solutions enabling next generation, full-featured consumer applications, such as converged handsets, digital flat panel displays, information appliances, home networking, and residential set top boxes.
 Data Center - Designed for high-bandwidth, low-latency servers, networking, and storage applications to bring higher value into cloud deployments.
 High Performance Computing and Data Storage -
Solutions for Network Attached Storage (NAS), Storage
Area Network (SAN), servers, and storage appliances.
 Industrial - Xilinx FPGAs and targeted design platforms for Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) enable higher degrees of flexibility, faster time-to-market, and lower overall non-recurring engineering costs (NRE) for a wide range of applications such as industrial imaging and surveillance, industrial automation, and medical imaging equipment.
 Medical - For diagnostic, monitoring, and therapy applications, the Virtex FPGA and Spartan® FPGA families can be used to meet a range of processing, display, and I/O interface requirements.
 Security - Xilinx offers solutions that meet the evolving needs of security applications, from access control to surveillance and safety systems.
 Video & Image Processing - Xilinx FPGAs and targeted design platforms enable higher degrees of flexibility, faster time-to-market, and lower overall non-recurring engineering costs (NRE) for a wide range of video and imaging applications.
 Wired Communications - End-to-end solutions for the
Reprogrammable Networking Line card Packet
Processing, Framer/MAC, serial backplanes and more
 Wireless Communications - RF, base band, connectivity, transport and networking solutions for wireless equipment, addressing standards such as WCDMA,
HSDPA, WiMAX and others.
Experimental Results
The proposed method is implemented in Micro blaze
Processor and the results are furnished in the tabulation below:
IV. CONCLUSION
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In this paper we introduced a new compression algorithm that highly efficient to compress the image in securely and faster.
In we present the SPIHT algorithm to compress the image.
For using this algorithm we introduced the new designing suite with this we import the image and process in the image to compress the image .It outputs best results and presented here.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Kosti Nava Tejaswi completed B.E inSanketikaVidyaParishad Engineering
College Visakhapatnam, currently pursuing M.Tech from Avanthi institute of Engineering & Technology, Visakhapatnam Andhra
Pradesh. Interested in Image Processing.
B.N. SrinivasaRao received his B.Techdegree in Electronics and
Comunication Engineering from JNT
University, Hyderabad, India and M.Tech in
VLSI System Design from JNT
University,Hyderabad, India. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Avanthi
Institute of Engineering and Technology,
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. He has 5 years teaching and 9 years industrial experience. He has 10 publications in various International conferences. His area of interest VLSI Semi and full custom design.
He guided many projects for B.Tech and M.Tech students.
E. GOVINDA received his B.Tech degree in Electronics and
Communication Engineering from V.R.
Siddhartha Engineering College and M.Tech in DSCE from JNT University, Hyderabad,
India. He is currently working as a Head of department of Electronics and
Communication Engineering in Avanthi
Institute of Engineering and Technology,
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. He has 10 years teaching experience. He has 15 publications in various
International conferences. He guided many projects for B.Tech and
M.Tech students.
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