Features

This IP core has been developed to be a complete standards compliant JPEG Extended Encoder and has a constant encoding throughput of 16 compressed color pixels every three clock cycles (5.3 pixels/cyc) or 8 grayscale pixels per clock cycle, both at any compression ratio.

Its main features are:


  • Extended and Baseline DCT compression according to JPEG ITU-T T.81 | ISO/IEC 10918-1 standard.
  • JFIF 1.02 standard file header.
  • HDR: from 8 to 36 bpp (bits per pixel) pixel data width, runtime selectable, RGB and YCbCr.
  • On-the-fly selectable quality level/compression ratio from 1 to 100 to achieve any bitrate.
  • Drag'n'drop IP block for Xilinx Vivado Block Design and Intel Quartus Qsys.
  • Constant encoding throughput: 8 pixels per cycle grayscale, or 16 compressed pixels every 3 clock cycles color
  • Industry standard interfaces: AXI-Lite slave for configuration/status and AXI3/4 master for pixel-input/encoded-output.
  • Embedded DMA engines in AXI3/4 interfaces for direct connection to a memory controller. Support for high latency memories.
  • Optional AXI4-Stream Pixel-Input and Encoded-Output interfaces.
  • Optional SW control of the IP core configuration registers (sample source code provided)
  • Selectable JPG chroma subsampling (4:4:4, 4:2:2, 4:2:0), independent of input subsampling.
  • Unlimited image resolution (up to 64K x 64K as per JPEG spec.).
  • Unlimited Restart markers support.


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Throughput

This IP core is available in 4 different speeds: 1x, 2x, 4x, and 8x. Each with a different relative size and licensing. The pixel throughputs are:

JPEG Encoder IP core Pixel Throughputs


Above pixel throughputs (i.e. IP core frequency 200 MHz) are achieved on most of the latest mid-range FPGAs.

Grayscale pixels may be from 8 bits to up to 12 bits. Whereas color pixels may range from 24 to up to 36 bits per pixel. The speeds above remain constant in all cases.


Interfaces

The data interfaces in the JPEG Extended Encoder IP Core (JPEGEX) use the AXI industry standard. The Master I/O data interfaces use an AXI3 bus, forward compatible with AXI4 interconnects.


The input/output interfaces of the JPEGEX IP core are the following:

  • Configuration Interface: AXI-Lite slave with a 32 bits interface to control all the necessary parameters of encoding.

  • Data I/O Interface: AXI3/4 Master interface for reading input pixels and writing .JPG files from/to memory. Optional AXI4-Stream pixel input interface and AXI4-Stream .JPG file output.

  • Interrupt output: A rising-edge interrupt is available, signaling when an image has been processed.

Support

Included with the core is:

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