Abstract:
This thesis investigates Dynamic Voltage Scaling (DVS) techniques to lower
power consumption in video decoding. A DVS scheme called the Frame-data
Computation Aware (FDCA) method has been presented. This method is
adaptable not only to stored video applications but also to real-time video
scenarios. Unlike DVS schemes for video decoding proposed earlier, the FDCA
scheme does not require any preprocessing mechanisms. Results from simulations
performed using the scheme are presented and compared with prior existing DVS
schemes. The results indicate that the FDCA method provides power saving of up
to an average of about 68%.
