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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTA.2011.18A.2.039

High-Performance Architecture of 4×4/8×8 DCT and Quantization Circuit for Unified Video CODEC  

Lee, Seon-Young (전자부품연구원 융합신호SoC연구센터)
Cho, Kyeong-Soon (한국외국어대학교 전자공학과)
Abstract
This paper proposes the new high-performance circuit architecture of the transform and quantization for unified video CODEC. The proposed architecture can be applied to all kinds of transforms and quantizations for the video compression standards such as JPEG, MPEG-1/2/4, H.264 and VC-1. We defined the permutation matrices to reorder the transform matrix of the $8{\times}8$ DCT and partitioned the reordered $8{\times}8$ transform matrix into four $4{\times}4$ sub-matrices. The $8{\times}8$ DCT is performed by repeating the $4{\times}4$ DCT's based on the reordered and partitioned transform matrices. Since our circuit accepts the transform coefficients from the users, it can be extended very easily to cover any kind of DCT-based transforms for future standards. The multipliers in the DCT circuit are shared by the quantization circuit in order to minimize the circuit size. The quantization circuit is merged into the DCT circuit without any significant increase of circuit resources and processing time. We described the proposed DCT and quantization circuit at RTL, and verified its operation on FPGA board.
Keywords
DCT; Quantization; Unified Video CODEC; Circuit Architecture;
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