800: EE Circuit Elements in Digital Computations Part 2
Instructor: Dr. Khan Wahid Office: 2B46, Engineering Building Office Hours: Wednesday (1.00pm 2.30pm) Phone: [phone], E-mail: [e-mail] Class Location: 2C61 Class Schedule: Tuesday 2.30pm-4.00pm
Tentative Course Outline: Number systems; binary and signed-digit representations; DSP fixed-point and CSD fixedcoefficients implementation; Arithmetic algorithms using binary representation; use of redundancy in implementing fundamental arithmetic algorithms Introduction to video coding, Analog and digital video basics, Colour-space conversion, Chroma sub-sampling, Video motion models, Spatio-temporal sampling Video compression standards: JPEG, JPEG2000, MPEG-4, and H.264, Video codec design, Inter- and intra-prediction, I, P, and B frame Discrete Transforms, quantization and coding: Discrete Cosine Transform and Wavelet Transform; Encoder/Decoder design; Overview of H.264, Implementation methods of H.264 codec Error-free computations; theory the and application of algebraic integer quantization (AIQ) to DSP; Use of these arithmetic techniques in implementing discrete transforms related to Image and Video compression algorithms HDL coding, RTL simulation, and synthesis using CAD tools; FPGA implementation; Modelling Combinational and Sequential logic circuits Course Evaluation: Assignments: Projects: Final:
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Recommended Reading Materials: HDL Chip Design: A Practical Guide for Designing, Synthesizing and Simulating ASICs and FPGAs Using VHDL or Verilog, Douglas J. Smith, 1996 H.264 and MPEG-4 Video Compressi...