10.3.2 Test Setup
The test setup used to measure frame level switch overheads leading to three categories of measurements:
- Same Codec: When frames of the same codec (MJPEG) and same stream are decoded back to back. The M4 MHz consumed will be the least in this case as the codec does not save and restore channel persistent data and codec IVAHD ICONT code.
- Same Codec Type: When frames of the same codec (MJPEG) and different streams are decoded back to back. The overheads for channel specific persistent data save and restore come into picture for this case.
- Different Codec: When frames from different codecs are run back to back. Here, the overheads include both channel specific persistent data save and restore and Codec ICONT code load.
The overhead in all of the cases can be observed in the M4 MHz for the Codec as shown in Section 10.3.3.