Supporting Reconfigurable Parallel Multimedia Applications

Abstract. Programming multimedia applications for System-on-Chip (SoC) architectures is difficult because streaming communication, user event handling, reconfiguration, and parallelism have to be dealt with. We present Hinch, a runtime system for multimedia applications, that efficiently exploits parallelism by running the application in a dataflow style. The application has to be implemented as components that communicate using streams. Reconfigurability is supported by a generic component interface. Measurements have been performed on a SpaceCake SoC architecture simulator. Hinch can easily be ported to other sharedmemory architectures.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: EUROPAR
• Authors: Maik Nijhuis, Herbert Bos, Henri E. Bal
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, EUROPAR 2006, Multimedia Applications, Programming Multimedia Applications, SoC Architecture Simulator