Programmable Pruning Level Control based MPEG video encoder

This paper proposes an efficient implementation of a Programmable Pruning Level Control based video encoder for real time image compression applications. The implementation is capable of processing good quality monochrome images of sizes upto 1200×1024 pixels and color images upto 1024×768 pixels, both at the rate of 25 frames per second. The design fits into two pieces of a commercially available Embedded Programmable Logic Devices (EPLDs) and can be used directly as a co-processor on a PC Bus.