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Verilog Implementation Of Da Based Dct With High Accuracy
Error-Compensated Adder Tree
Y Venkat Seshaiah B.Chinna rao P.M.Francis
M.tech (PG student) Prof. &Head, Dept.of ECE Asst.Prof. In Dept. of ECE
Gokul Eng College Gokul Eng College Gokul Eng College
Abstract
In brief, by operating the shifting and area cost [8], [9]. Hence the NEDA architecture is
addition in parallel, an error-compensated adder- the smallest architecture for DA-based DCT core
tree (ECAT) is proposed to deal with the designs, but speed limitations exist in the operations
truncation errors and to achieve low-error and of serial shifting and addition after the DA-
high-throughput discrete cosine transform (DCT) computation. The high-throughput shift-adder-tree
design. Instead of the 12 bits used in previous (SAT) and adder-tree (AT), those unroll the number
works, 9-bit distributed arithmetic-precision is of shifting and addition words in parallel for DA-
chosen for this work so as to meet peak-signal-to- based computation, were introduced in [10] and
noise-ratio (PSNR) requirements. Thus, an area- [11], respectively. However, a large truncation error
efficient DCT core is implemented to achieve 1 occurred. In order to reduce the truncation error
Gpels/s throughput rate with gate counts of 22.2 effect, several error compensation bias methods have
K for the PSNR requirements outlined in the been presented [12]–[14] based on statistical
previous works. analysis of the relationship between partial products
and multiplier-multiplicand. However, the elements
Index Terms—Distributed arithmetic (DA)- of the truncation part outlined in this work are
based, error-compensated adder-tree (ECAT), 2- independent so that the previously described
D discrete cosine transform (DCT). compensation methods cannot be applied.
I. INTRODUCTION This brief addresses a DA-based DCT core
Discrete cosine transform (DCT) is a with an error-compensated adder-tree (ECAT). The
widely used tool in image and video compression proposed ECAT operates shifting and addition in
applications [1]. Recently, the high-throughput DCT parallel by unrolling all the words required to be
designs have been adopted to fit the requirements of computed. Furthermore, the error-compensated
real-time applications [2]–[11]. circuit alleviates the truncation error for high
accuracy design. Based on low-error ECAT, the DA-
The multiplier-based DCTs were presented precision n this work is chosen to be 9 bits instead of
and implemented in [2] and [3].To reduce the traditional 12 bits so as to achieve the peak-
area,ROM-based distributed arithmetic (DA)was signal-to-noise-ratio (PSNR) [1] requirements.
applied in DCT cores[4]–[6].Uramotoet Therefore, the hardware cost is reduced, and the
.[4]implemented the DA-based multipliers speed is improved using the proposed ECAT.
usingROMsto produce partial products together with
adders that accumulated these partial products. In This brief is organized as follows. In
this way, instead of multipliers, the DA-based ROM Section II, the mathematical derivation of the
can be applied in a DCT core design to reduce the distributed arithmetic is given. The proposed ECAT
area required. In addition, the symmetrical properties architecture is discussed in Section II. The proposed
of the DCT transform and parallel DA architecture 8 X 8 2-D DCT core is demonstrated in Section III.
can be used in reducing the ROM size in [5] and [6], The comparisons and results are presented in Section
respectively. Recently, ROM-free DA architectures IV, and conclusions are drawn in Section V.
were presented [7]–[11]. Shams et al.
employed a bit-level sharing scheme to construct the II. MATHEMATICAL DERIVATION OF
adder-based butterfly matrix called new DA DISTRIBUTED ARITHMETIC
(NEDA) [7]. Being compressed, the butterfly-adder-
matrix in [7] The inner product is an important tool in
utilized 35 adders and 8 shift-addition digital signal processing applications. It can be
elements to replace the ROM. Based on NEDA written as follows:
architecture, the recursive form and arithmetic logic
unit (ALU) were applied in DCT design to reduce
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(1)
In general, the shifting and addition computation
Where Ai,Xi and L are ith fixed coefficient, ith input uses a shift-and-add operator [7] in VLSI
data, and number of inputs, respectively. Assume implementation in order to reduce hardware cost.
that coefficient 4i is Q-bit two’s complement binary However, when the number of the shifting and
fraction number. Equation (1) can be expressed as addition words increases, the computation time will
follows: also increase. Therefore, the shift-adder-tree (SAT)
presented in [10] operates shifting and addition in
parallel by unrolling all the words needed to be
computed for high-speed applications. However, a
large truncation error occurs in SAT, and an ECAT
architecture is proposed in this brief to compensate
for the truncation error in high-speed applications.
In Fig. 1, the Q P-bit words operate the shifting
and addition in parallel by unrolling all
computations. Furthermore, the operation in Fig. 1
can be divided into two parts: the main part (MP)
that includes _ most significant bits (MSBs) and the
truncation part (TP) that has least significant
bits (LSBs). Then, the shifting and addition output
can be expressed as follows:
(2)
(4)
The output Y will obtain the P-bit MSBs using a
rounding operation called post truncation (Post-T),
which is used for high-accuracy applications.
Note that y0 may be 0 or a negative number However, hardware cost increases in the VLSI
due to two’s complement representation. In (2), y0 design. In general, the TP is usually truncated to
can be calculated by adding all Xi values when reduce hardware costs in parallel shifting and
Ai,j=1 and then the transform output Y can be addition operations, known as the direct truncation
obtained by shifting and adding all nonzero yi alues. (Direct-T) method. Thus, a large truncation error
Thus the inner product computation in (1) can be occurs due to the neglecting of carry propagation
implemented by using shifting and adders instead of from the TP to MP. In order to alleviate the
multipliers. Therefore, low hardware cost can be truncation error effect, several error compensation
achieved by using DA-based architecture. bias methods have been presented [12]–[14]. All
previous works were only applied in the design of a
fixed-width multiplier. Because the products in a
multiplier have a relationship between the input
multiplier and multiplicand, the compensation
methods usually use the correlation of inputs to
calculate a fixed [12] or an adaptive [13], [14]
compensation bias using simulation or statistical
analysis. Note that the addition elements yqp in the
TP in Fig. 1 (where 1<=Q<=(Q-1) and P-q-
1<=p<=(P-1)) are independent from each other.
Fig.1.Q P-bit words shifting and addition operations Therefore, the previous compensation method
in parallel. cannot be applied in this work, and the proposed
ECAT is explained as follows.
A. Proposed Error-Compensated Scheme
III. ECAT ARCHITECTURE
From Fig. 1, (4) can be approximated as
From (2), the shifting and addition
computation can be written as follows:
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where is the compensated bias from the TP to the Fig. 2. Proposed ECAT architecture of shifting and
MP as listed in (6)–(8) addition operators for the (P,Q)=(12,6) example
The proposed ECAT has the highest
accuracy with a moderate areadelay product. The
shift-and-add [7] method has the smallest area, but
the overall computation time is equal to 10.8ns that
(6) is the longest. Similarly, the SAT [10], which
truncates the TP and computes in parallel, takes 3.72
ns to complete the computation and uses 406 gates,
which is the best area-delay product performance.
However, for system accuracy, the SAT is the worst
option shown in Table I. Therefore, the ECAT is
suitable for high-speed and low-error applications.
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TABLE 1: COMPARISONS OF THE PROPOSED
ECAT WITH OTHER ARCHITECTURES FOR A
(8) SIX 8-BIT WORDS EXAMPLE
B. Performance Simulation for an Error-
Compensated Circuit IV. DISCUSSION AND COMPARISONS
In this subsection, comparisons of the The test image “Lena” used to check
absolute average error ξ , the maximum error ξmax, system accuracy is comprised of 512 X 512 pixels
and the mean square error ξm.se for the proposed with each pixel being represented by 8-bit 256 gray
error-compensated circuit with Direct-T and Post-T level data. After inputting the original test image
are listed. The ξ,, ξmax and ξm.se are defined as pixels to the proposed 2-D DCT core, the transform
follows: output data is captured and fed into MATLAB to
compute the inverse DCT using 64-bit double-
precision operations. The PSNRs are close to 44 and
47 dB for test image and for random 8-bit 256 gray
level data inputs, receptively. Table II compares the
proposed 8 X 8 2-D DCT core with previous 2-D
DCT cores. In [3], a multiplier-based DCT core
based on pipeline radix-4square single delay
feedback path architecture to achieve high-speed
C. Proposed ECAT Architecture design. The ROM-based DCT core is presented in
The proposed ECAT architecture is [4] to reduce adders to reduce the chip area of DCT
illustrated in Fig. 2 for (P,Q)=(12,6) (case 3), where core. Nevertheless, a speed limitation for shift-and-
block FA indicates a full-adder cell with three inputs add is in NEDA design. In [10] and [11], the SAT
(a, b, and c) and two outputs, a sum (s) and a carry- and AT architectures for DA-based DCTs improve
out (co). Also, block HA indicates half-adder cell the throughput rate of the NEDA method. However,
with two inputs (a and b) and two outputs, a sum (s) DA-precision must be chosen as 13 bits to meet the
and a carry-out (co). The comparisons of area, delay, system accuracy with more area overhead. The
area-delay product, and accuracy for the proposed proposed DCT core uses low-error ECAT to achieve
ECAT with other architectures are listed in Table II. a high-speed design, and the DA-precision can be
The area and delay are synthesized using a Synopsys chosen as 9 bits to meet the PSNR requirements for
Design Compiler with the Artisan TSMC 0.18- μm reducing hardware costs. The proposed DCT core
Standard cell library. has the highest hardware efficiency, defined as
follows (based on the accuracy required by the
presented standards).
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TABLE III: COMPARISONS OF 2-D DCT
ARCHITECTURES IN FPGAS
IV.RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The 8-point 1-D DCT architecture and the
implementation were discussed in the previous
chapters. Now this chapter deals with the simulation
TABLE II :COMPARISONS OF DIFFERENT 2-D and synthesis results of the implemented 1-D 8-point
DCT ARCHITECTURES WITH THE PROPOSED DCT. Here ModelSim tool is used in order to
ARCHITECTURE simulate the design and checks the functionality of
the design. Once the functional verification is done,
the design will be taken to the Xilinx tool for
Synthesis process and the net-list generation.
Simulation Result:
Fig. 3. Architecture of the proposed 1-D 8-point
DCT
Fig : Simulation results of Distributed Arithmatic
DCT
V. CONCLUSION
In this brief, a high-speed and low-error 8
X 8 2-D DCT design with ECAT is proposed to
improve the throughput rate significantly up to about
13 folds at high compression rates by operating the
shifting and addition in parallel. Furthermore, the
proposed error-compensated circuit alleviates the
truncation error in ECAT. In this way, the DA-
Fig. 4. Core layout and characteristics
precision can be chosen as 9 bits instead of 12 bits
so as to meet the PSNR requirements. Thus, the
Furthermore, the proposed 2-D DCT core
proposed DCT core has the highest hardware
synthesized by using Xilinx ISE 9.1, and the Xilinx
efficiency than those in previous works for the same
XC2VP30 FPGA can achieve 792 mega pixels per
PSNR requirements. Finally, an area-efficient 2-D
second (M-pels/sec) throughput rate (up to about 7
DCT core is implemented using a TSMC 0.18- μm
folds of previous work [16]). Table III compares the
process, and the maximum throughput rate is 1
proposed 2-D DCT core with previous FPGA
Gpels/s. In summary, the proposed architecture is
implementations.
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