Hi All,
We are an enthusiasts who are written hardware JPEG-LS IP core. Visit project site
It's working in the simulator and we are sure about it. Although sufficient effort should be applied to public this project and prove its rights to life :) In case if we decide to do it the big amount of work appears in front of us: we have to write full documentation, assemble set of demo testbenches, fit and verify core with many FPGA chips and make some software utilities.
Therefore I would hear some opinions from the community about such type of projects: is it really interest for somebody or it will be simple junk efforts. What do you think about practical usage hardwared compression? Who can be interested in it?
We haven't careful thought about licensing terms yet, but I expect it will be free core in any way. There are some reasons to don't open sources so we can't apply GNU but GPL looks quite well.
P.S. I know about opencores.org and I've had done two projects there, so I'll probably place jpeg-ls coder too.
Digitally yours, Michael