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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

Yes, I understand this.

But the main purpose is not speed. This is an exercise. A laboration. It has certain requirements (one of them being that it shall run C/C++ compiled code which compresses a bmp file by jpeg compression).

Sure, I could write all of it in VHDL or Verilog, but I doubt it would be faster than just running it on the computer.

My purpose is to create an efficient hardware architecture (Not perfect, mind you! I have absolutely no intention to optimize caches.) to run a jpeg compressor on.