Addresses a selection of multimedia applications, programmable and custom architectures for the implementations of multimedia systems, and arithmetic architectures and design methodologies. This book covers various applications of digital signal processing algorithms in multimedia and details VHDL-based implementation approaches.

Part 1 System applications: multimedia systems overview; video compression; audio compression; system synchronization approaches; digital versatile disk; VLSI signal processing for very high speed digital subscriber loops (VDSL); cable modems; wireless communication systems. Part 2 Programmable and custom architectures and algorithms: programmable DSPs; RISC, video and media DSPs; wireless DSPs; motion estimation system design; wavelet VLSI architectures; DCT architectures; lossless coders; Viterbi decoders - algorithms and high performance architectures; watermarking for multimedia; systolic RLS adaptive filtering; STAR-RLS filtering. Part 3 Advanced arithmetic architectures and design methodologies: division and square root; finite field arithmetic; cordic algorithms and architectures for fast and efficient vector-rotation implementation; advanced systolic design; low power design; power estimation approaches; system exploration for custom low power data storage and transfer; hardware description and synthesis of DSP systems.