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Efficient CAVLC Decoder VLSI Design for HD Images  

Oh, Myung-Seok (Dept. Electrical and Electronic Eng. Yonsei Univ.)
Lee, Won-Jae (Dept. Electrical and Electronic Eng. Yonsei Univ.)
Kim, Jae-Seok (Dept. Electrical and Electronic Eng. Yonsei Univ.)
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Abstract
In this paper, we propose an efficient hardware architecture for H.264/AVC CAVLC (Context-based Adaptive Variable Length Coding) decoding which used for baseline profile and extended profile. Previous CAVLC architectures are consisted of five step block and each block gets effective bits from Controller block and Accumulator. If large number of non-zero coefficients exist, process for getting effective bits has to iterates many times. In order to reduce this unnecessary process, we propose two techniques, which combine five steps into four steps and reduce process to get efficiency bit by skipping addition step. By adopting these two techniques, the required processing time was reduced about 26% compared with previous architectures. It was designed in a hardware description language and total logic gate count was 16.83k using 0.18um standard cell library.
Keywords
H.264/AVC; Entropy coding; CAVLC; CAVLD; Baseline entropy coding;
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