Grouped Approach for the Design of H.264/AVC Motion Estimation Architectures

  • Lopez, Sebastian (Institute for Applied Microelectronics, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) ;
  • Callico, Gustavo M. (Institute for Applied Microelectronics, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) ;
  • Tobajas, Felix (Institute for Applied Microelectronics, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) ;
  • De Armas, Valentin (Institute for Applied Microelectronics, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) ;
  • Lopez, Jose F. (Institute for Applied Microelectronics, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) ;
  • Sarmiento, Roberto (Institute for Applied Microelectronics, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)
  • Received : 2008.07.30
  • Accepted : 2008.10.21
  • Published : 2008.12.31

Abstract

This letter presents a novel approach for organizing computational resources into groups within H.264/AVC motion estimation architectures, leading to reductions of up to 75% in the equivalent gate count with respect to state-of-the-art designs.

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