Data compression on embedded system

Abstract

The development of efficient compression software to compress text is a challenging task. This paper presents how LZW Data Compression technique can be used to compress & decompress the text. The main goal of the system is to make use of LZW data compression technique to compress & decompress the text file on an Embedded Processor such as ARM. We present a way by which we can implement data compression algorithm on an embedded system. Given the set of text program to be compressed, the algorithms runs on Embedded processor and analyzes the code, gathers other relevant information and performs text compression or decompression . Implementation of LZW on embedded processor gives better result as compare to Huffman Compression. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.