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Merged Source Word Codes for Efficient, High-Speed Entropy Coding

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OSTI ID:15005833
We present our work on fast entropy coders for binary messages utilizing only bit shifts and table lookups. To minimize code table size we limit our code lengths with a novel type of variable-to-variable (VV) length code created from source word merging. We refer to these codes as merged codes. With merged codes it is possible to achieve a desired level of efficiency by adjusting the number of bits read from the source at each step. The most efficient merged codes yield a coder with an inefficiency of 0.4%, relative to the Shannon entropy, in the worst case. On one of our test systems a current implementation of coder using merged codes has a throughput of 35 Mbytes/sec.
Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
US Department of Energy (US)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
15005833
Report Number(s):
UCRL-JC-150989
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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