13TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON WIRELESS PERSONAL

MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS (WPMC 2010)

AN EMBEDDED AUDIO
DECODER FOR THE
ISDB-T
Vinicius J. A. Braga, José M. L. Filho,
Luis G. P. Meloni

{vinicius,matias,meloni}@decom.fee.unicamp.br
OBJECTIVE

To show the whole process of
implementation of an audio
decoder in an embedded system
for the development of Brazilian
Digital Television System.

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AGENDA

Project Context

Technology Overview

Choice of DSP

Optimization Techniques

Decoder Implementation

Current Results

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PROJECT CONTEXT

This work is part of the development
project of Brazilian Digital Television
System (SBTVD)

SBTVD is based on Integrated Services

Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T)

Main difference: MPEG-2 by MPEG-4

Actually used in more than 10 Latin America

countries.

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TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW

MPEG-4 introduced a new version of the
audio codec, the High-Efficiency
Advanced Audio Coding Version 2, HE-
AACv2.

The basic difference: SBR and PS

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TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW

Spectral Band Replication (SBR)
increases the bandwidth and enables the
audio codec to deliver the same result
using half bit rate

Parametric Stereo (PS) increase the
coding efficiency a second time by
exploiting a parametric representation
of the stereo image

HE-AACv2 = AAC + SBR + PS

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Fig. 1 – Detail Block Diagram of decoder HE-AACv2

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CHOICE OF DSP

Characteristics required:

High-Performance for real-time
application

Specific features for audio processing

High level of integration between core,
memory and peripherals

DSP Chosen: ADSP-BF533 Blackfin
processor

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CHOICE OF DSP

Fig. 2 – System Architecture of ADSP-BF533

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CHOICE OF DSP

Characteristics of DSP:

16-/32-bit processor

64 MB (32M x 16-bit) SDRAM

Audio Codec (AD1836) capable of
processing multichannel audio

Various peripherals for communication
(SPI, SPORT, JTAG, USB)

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OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES
Non-optimized
code

Compiler
Optimization

Optimization
for
Architecture

Assembly
Optimization

Optimized
code

Fig. 3 – Optimization Flowchart 11

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OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES

Compiler Optimization:

Built-in functions

Optimization for Processor
Architecture:

Cache

DMA Traffic Control

Set CDPRIO

Assembly Optimization
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DECODER IMPLEMENTATION

To make the implementation of AAC-LC

To include, gradually, the new tools
SBR and PS

To apply code optimization

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CURRENT RESULTS

The code has been tested and validated

Optimization performed brought significant
improvements

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CURRENT RESULTS

Complexity Before Complexity After

Block
(MCPS) (MCPS)

IMDCT 71 18.33
Analysis Filter
29 15.50
Bank
Envelope
50 16.16
Adjuster
Synthesis Filter
99 24.48
Bank

Table 1 – Decoding Results Before and After Optimization

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WHAT’S NEXT ?

Implementation of other optimization
techniques, for example:

Use of new technologies even more
efficient

Techniques to improve the use of
Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) parallelism

Other techniques of code optimization

Optimization the other blocks

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

FINEP

UNICAMP

RT-DSP Laboratory

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MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS (WPMC 2010)

AN EMBEDDED AUDIO
DECODER FOR THE
ISDB-T
Vinicius J. A. Braga, José M. L. Filho,
Luis G. P. Meloni

{vinicius,matias,meloni}@decom.fee.unicamp.br