Orcc: multimedia development made easy

Hervé Yviquel (1, 2) , Antoine Lorence (2) , Khaled Jerbi (2) , Gildas Cocherel (2) , Alexandre Sanchez (2) , Mickaël Raulet (2)

1 CAIRN - Energy Efficient Computing ArchItectures with Embedded Reconfigurable Resources
2 IETR - Institut d'Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique

In this paper, we present Orcc, an open-source development environment that aims at enhancing multimedia development by offering all the advantages of dataflow programming: flexibility, portability and scalability. To do so, Orcc embeds two rich eclipse-based editors that provide an easy writing of dataflow applications, a simulator that allows quick validation of the written code, and a multi-target compiler that is able to translate any dataflow program, written in the RVC-CAL language, into an equivalent description in both hardware and software languages. Orcc has already been used to successfully write tens of multimedia applications, such as a video decoder supporting the new High Efficiency Video Coding standard, that clearly demonstrates the ability of the environment to develop complex applications. Moreover, results show scalable performances on multi-core platforms and achieve real-time decoding frame-rate on HD sequences.

Domaines: Systèmes embarqués; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Hervé Yviquel, Antoine Lorence, Khaled Jerbi, Gildas Cocherel, Alexandre Sanchez, et al.. Orcc: multimedia development made easy. The 21st ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Oct 2013, Barcelone, France. pp.863-866. ⟨hal-00909401⟩