1Tung-Chien Chen @ DAPIC LAB / GIEE NTUMPEG-4 ASP with deblocking H.264/AVC Baseline

H.264 Newest video coding standard Superior compression performance Wide range of applications

Real-time mobile system / HD-DVD / DVB-H

A 1.3 TOPS H.264/AVC Single-Chip Encoder for HDTV Applications

2Tung-Chien Chen @ DAPIC LAB / GIEE NTU

Rec. MBSRAM

Deblock SRAM

Residue MBSRAM

BitstreamSRAM

Luma Ref. Pels SRAMs

Cur. Luma & Chroma MBSRAM

MC Luma MB SRAM

Main Controller

System Bus Interface

Local Bus Interface

Upper Ref. & MV SRAM

Cur. Luma MBReg.

MC Chroma MBSRAM

Upper Pels & I4MBSRAM

Total Coeff. SRAM

Upper MB QP & IntraFlag SRAM

IME Engine FME Engine

Encoder Chip

1st Stage 2nd Stage 3rd Stage 4th Stage

EC Engine

DB Engine

IP Engine

3MB LocalExternal Memory

(Ref. Frames)

AHB Master/Slave DRAM Controller

AHB

RISCVideo Input System ExternalMemory

System Bus Interface

AHB Master/Slave DRAM Controller

AHB

RISCVideo Input System ExternalMemory

BE MCDCT/ Q/IQ / IDCT VLCME

Traditional

Proposed

3Tung-Chien Chen @ DAPIC LAB / GIEE NTU

High performance HDTV720p 30fps specification wit

h competitive video quality Efficient techniques

Four-stage MB pipelining Low bandwidth Integer-ME Fully pipelined Fraction-ME Reconfigurable Intra Engine

IME

FME

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Pels

SR

AM

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Lum

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RAM

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Lum

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RAM

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IP

EC

DB

SR

AM

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SR

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SR

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s 581mW for D1

785mW for HDTV720pPower Consumption

1.8VSupply Voltage

81MHz for D1

108MHz for HDTV720pOperating Frequency

Baseline Profile CompressionEncoding Tools

34.72KBSRAM

922.8K (2-input NAND gate)Logic Gates

7.68 4.13mm2Core Area

UMC 0.18Technology

581mW for D1

785mW for HDTV720pPower Consumption

1.8VSupply Voltage

81MHz for D1

108MHz for HDTV720pOperating Frequency

Baseline Profile CompressionEncoding Tools

34.72KBSRAM

922.8K (2-input NAND gate)Logic Gates

7.68 4.13mm2Core Area

UMC 0.18 um CMOS 1P6MTechnology

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