TY - GEN
T1 - A pipeline parallel tree architecture for full search variable block size motion estimation in H.264/AVC
AU - Liu, Zhenyu
AU - Song, Yang
AU - Ikenaga, Takeshi
AU - Goto, Satoshi
PY - 2006/12/1
Y1 - 2006/12/1
N2 - A fine-grain scalable parallel tree architecture for full search variable block size motion estimation (VBSME) with integer pixel accuracy is proposed in this paper. Through exploiting the spatial data correlations between horizontal candidate block searches, m×16 process elements (PE) are scheduled to work in parallel and fully utilized. The basic extension grain is one process element group (PEG), which accounts for 16 PE and 8.5K gates. In this architecture, the search window memory partition number is largely reduced. Consequently no trivial hardware cost and power consumption can be saved. One 16-PEG design with 48×32 search range has been implemented with TSMC 0.18μm CMOS technology. The core area is 1717μm×1713μm and the clock frequency is 261MHz in typical working condition.
AB - A fine-grain scalable parallel tree architecture for full search variable block size motion estimation (VBSME) with integer pixel accuracy is proposed in this paper. Through exploiting the spatial data correlations between horizontal candidate block searches, m×16 process elements (PE) are scheduled to work in parallel and fully utilized. The basic extension grain is one process element group (PEG), which accounts for 16 PE and 8.5K gates. In this architecture, the search window memory partition number is largely reduced. Consequently no trivial hardware cost and power consumption can be saved. One 16-PEG design with 48×32 search range has been implemented with TSMC 0.18μm CMOS technology. The core area is 1717μm×1713μm and the clock frequency is 261MHz in typical working condition.
KW - H.264/AVC
KW - VLSI architecture
KW - Variable block size motion estimation
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34047130694
SN - 300018726X
SN - 9783000187261
T3 - 25th PCS Proceedings: Picture Coding Symposium 2006, PCS2006
BT - 25th PCS Proceedings
T2 - 25th PCS: Picture Coding Symposium 2006, PCS2006
Y2 - 24 April 2006 through 26 April 2006
ER -