Video Encoder Implementation on Tilera's TILEPro64TM Multicore Processor

The Moore's law states that the transistor number on integrated circuits approximately doubles every two years. This trend has been met since its description in 1965. But this ex‐ ponential growth in transistor count does not always translate into similar growth of CPU performance; some issues such as power density, total power and intra-chip distances are preventing clock speeds above 4.5 GHz. During the past decades advances in semiconduc‐ tor technology and architecture have overcome the obstacles, but at present there is no al‐ ternative technology and all the possibilities of micro-parallelism seem to have been explored. Another major issue is that the speed of dynamic memory has not grown with the same strength as the CPU's speed, while static memory is prohibitively expensive for widespread use.