Research Article

Automatic Generation of Optimized and Synthesizable Hardware Implementation from High-Level Dataflow Programs

Table 3

MPEG4 decoder timing results.

Criterion Transformed design Optimized design

Maximum frequency (MHz) 26.4 26.67
Latency ( 𝜇 s) 381.8 306.4
Cadency (MHz) 1.9 2.33
Processing time (ms/image) 13.55 11.01
Throughput frequency (MHz) 1.8 2.2
Global image processing (FPS) 73.8 90.82