Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

This report describes the design of a JPEG encoder. The project is a result of a course "System Tools" at Information and Computer Science Department, UC Irvine. The abstract executable specification SpecC is first developed based on a public domain C implementation. Software and hardware estimation is then performed based on which a datapath architecture is selected and RTL code is implemented. Finally, to explore the method of implementing a gate level model, part of the JPEG encoder is refined to the gate level.