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13 years ago

Seeking some advice and technical help regarding creation of multicore system

Hello all, I am trying to create a multicore system that I will use for JPEG encoding. I am using a DE2-115 board along with Quartus 12.1, Qsys and associated build tools for Eclipse. I have ...
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13 years ago

Hi,

Just need some clarrification first.

is your compression being done in hdl (verilog or vhdl?) or is it being done by c code on cpu cores?

I'm confused becasue of the two apparently contradicting points (or terminology):

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    I need as many cpus as possible to compress the bmp image to jpeg, so obviously more cpus are better.

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    This says your using Cpus for compression.

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    Now, the basic idea is to read a bmp file from the computer, compress it using the hardware, then write it back to the pc.

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    This says hardware?