Flexible, Open and Efficient Embedded Multimedia Systems
David de la Fuente, Jess Barba, Fernando Rincn, Julio Daniel, Juan Carlos · InTech eBooks · 2012
The first approaches dealing with hardware-based acceleration were based on the design of custom ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) or the use of DSPs (Digital Signal Processors). Lately, the emergence of high capacity reconfigurable devices such as FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) is encouraging developers to use this technology for the implementation of multimedia embedded systems. Some of the reasons that back up this trend are: short development/prototyping time, the ability to customize hardware, its flexibility, or reconfiguration facilities, just to name a few of them.