Nios II Processor-Based Hardware/Software Co-Design of the JPEG2000 StandardNios II Embedded Processor Design Contest―Outstanding Designs 2005 Second Prize Nios II Processor-Based Hardware/Software Co-Design of the JPEG2000 Standard Institution: University of New South Wales Participants: Mike Dyer, Amit Kumar Gupta, and Natalie Galin Design Introduction JPEG2000 is a recently standardized image compression algorithm that provides significant enhancements over the existing JPEG standard. JPEG2000 differs from widely used compression standards in that it relies on discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and uses embedded bit plane coding of the wavelet coefficients [1]. Due to the bit-oriented processing techniques used in the standard, full implementation via software is inefficient, making embedded processing slow on standard microprocessors……