ViPar: High-Level Design Space Exploration for Parallel Video Processing Architectures

Table 6

Comparing between different high-level tools for video processing application.

	VHLS [37]	Lin-Analyzer [27]	RVC [38]	ViPar
Programming language	Matlab or OpenCL	C/C++	RVC-CAL language	C/C++
Exploration level	Exploring Matlab-to-RTL synthesization	Exploring the design space for different optimization directives like loop unrolling, pipelining, …	Exploring data-flow algorithms to C-based synthesization	Exploring the design space for parallelism level, operating frequency, power consumption, hardware cost, …
Applications	KMGA LSM	Convolution 3D	HEVC decoder	Multiwindow SAD