GOP-level dynamic thermal management in MPEG-2 decoding

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 662-672

  Lee, Wonbok ^a,b   Patel, Kimish ^a,b   Pedram, Massoud ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic thermal management (DTM); Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS); Group of pictures (GOP); MPEG 2 decoding; Quality degradation

Indexed keywords

DECODING; IMAGE QUALITY; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; VIDEO CAMERAS; VIDEO STREAMING;

DYNAMIC THERMAL MANAGEMENT (DTM); DYNAMIC VOLTAGE AND FREQUENCY SCALING (DVFS); GROUP OF PICTURES (GOP); QUALITY DEGRADATION;

TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

EID: 44249110737     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2008.2000251     Document Type: Conference Paper

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