The LJPEG-E core from Alma Technologies implements the Lossless JPEG compression in a compact, high-performance and self-contained package. It supports up to 16-bit per component Numerically Lossless encoding and is ideal for image and video compression applications where bit-by-bit accurate reproduction of an image is essential, while the amount of compression needed is very low and the silicon resource usage is critical. The LJPEG-E is available for ASIC or AMD-Xilinx, Efinix, Intel, Lattice and Microsemi FPGA and SoC based designs.

The LJPEG-E conforms to the spatial (sequential) lossless encoding mode (SOF3) of the ISO/IEC 10918-1 standard (CCITT T.81 recommendation). Rather than the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) functions used for lossy JPEG compression - which introduce round-off errors - Lossless JPEG employs a predictor function and compresses images by encoding the prediction error with no information loss.

The LJPEG-E core is designed with simple, fully flow-controllable and FIFO-like, streaming input and output interfaces. Being carefully designed, rigorously verified and silicon-proven, the LJPEG-E is a compact, reliable and easy-to-use and integrate IP.

IP Deliverables

Clear text VHDL or Verilog RTL source for ASIC designs, or pre-synthesized and verified Netlist for FPGA and SoC devices

Release Notes, Design Specification and Integration Manual documents

Bit Accurate Model (BAM) and test vector generation binaries, including sample scripts

Self checking testbench environment, including sample BAM generated test cases

Simulation and sample Synthesis (for ASICs) or Place & Route (for FPGAs) scripts

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Features

ISO/IEC 10918-1 (Annex H) Compliant Lossless JPEG Encoder

Up to 64K x 64K image resolution

1, 2 or 3 (4:4:4 only) image components

2-16 bit per image component

Up to 4 programmable Huffman Tables

Programmable Restart Interval

Programmable Point Transform function

Complete, standalone Lossless JPEG stream output

Limitations with Respect to the ISO/IEC 10918-1 Standard

Up to 3 image components are supported
(Nf field of the SOF3 marker segment = 1 or 2 or 3)

Single-scan encoding
(Only one SOS marker segment, with Ns field = Nf)

No DNL marker insertion
(Y field of the SOF3 marker segment > 0)

Fixed parameters

No sub-sampling
(Hi and Vi fields of the SOF3 marker segment = 1)

Prediction function is fixed to the left-hand predictor
(Ss field of SOS marker segment = 1)

Ease of Integration

Single clock cycle per sample encoding throughput

Simple, microcontroller like, programming interface

High-speed, flow controllable, streaming I/O data interfaces

Simple and FIFO like

Avalon-ST compliant (ready latency 0)

AXI4-Stream compliant

CPU-less, standalone operation

Trouble-Free Technology Map and Implementation

Fully portable, self-contained RTL source code

Strictly positive edge triggered design

D-type only Flip-Flops

Fully synchronous operation

No special timing constraints required

No false paths

No multi-cycle paths

Literature

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