A method and apparatus for performing compression and/or decompression is described.
In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a system having a buffer, a
wavelet transform unit, and a coder. The wavelet transform unit has an input coupled
to the buffer to perform a wavelet transform on pixels stored therein and to generate
coefficients at an output. The coder is coupled to the wavelet transform unit to
code the transformed pixels received from the buffer.