Janneck, Jörn W.Miller, Ian D.Parlour, David B.Roquier, GhislainWipliez, MatthieuRaulet, Mickaël2010-01-212010-01-212010-01-21201110.1007/s11265-009-0397-5https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/45755WOS:000289110100007The MPEG Reconfigurable Video Coding working group is developing a new library-based process for building the reference codecs of future MPEG standards, which is based on dataflow and uses an actor language called Cal. The paper presents a code generator producing RTL targeting FPGAs for Cal, outlines its structure, and demonstrates its performance on an MPEG-4 Simple Profile decoder. The resulting implementation is smaller and faster than a comparable RTL reference design, and the second half of the paper discusses some of the reasons for this counter-intuitive result.DataflowCalReconfigurable Video CodingMPEGHigh-level synthesistext::journal::journal article::research article