Towards an H.264/AVC HW/SW Integrated Solution: An Efficient VBSME Architecture

M. Sayed, W. Badawy, G. Jullien
2008 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - II - Express Briefs  
This paper presents an efficient real-time variable block size motion estimation architecture. The proposed architecture provides motion vectors for each 16 16 block and its 40 sub-blocks. The proposed architecture is a single-instruction multiple-data architecture integrated with embedded SRAMs on one chip. The architecture has been prototyped using Xilinx Virtex-4 XC4VSX35-10 field-programmable gate array. It processes 30-CIF fps using 71-MHz clock frequency. Its maximum clock frequency is
more » ... .7 MHz and the maximum throughput is 20 4CIF fps. The prototyped architecture has 175 k gates and 18 kbits embedded SRAM. Index Terms-H.264, single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) architecture, variable block size motion estimation (VBSME).
doi:10.1109/tcsii.2008.923398 fatcat:gvqjdz6jtvh6njb46p35c2ul3i