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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2013.17.2.391

Area Efficient Hardware Design for Performance Improvement of SAO  

Choi, Jisoo (한밭대학교 정보통신공학과)
Ryoo, Kwangki (한밭대학교 정보통신공학과)
Abstract
In this paper, for HEVC decoding, an SAO hardware design with less processing time and reduced area is proposed. The proposed SAO hardware architecture introduces the design processing $8{\times}8$ CU to reduce the hardware area and uses internal registers to support $64{\times}64$ CU processing. Instead of previous top-down block partitioning, it uses bottom-up block partitioning to minimize the amount of calculation and processing time. As a result of synthesizing the proposed architecture with TSMC $0.18{\mu}m$ library, the gate area is 30.7k and the maximum frequency is 250MHz. The proposed SAO hardware architecture can process the decode of a macroblock in 64 cycles.
Keywords
HEVC; Sample Adaptive Offset; Video Coding; In-loop filter;
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