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http://dx.doi.org/10.7471/ikeee.2015.19.3.392

Design of Unified HEVC/VP9 4×4 Transform Block  

Jung, Seulkee (School of Electronic Engineering, Soongsil University)
Lee, Seongsoo (School of Electronic Engineering, Soongsil University)
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Journal of IKEEE / v.19, no.3, 2015 , pp. 392-399 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes a unified $4{\times}4$ transform architecture for HEVC and VP9 codec to reduce hardware size. It performs HEVC $4{\times}4$ IDCT, HEVC $4{\times}4$ IDST, VP9 $4{\times}4$ IDCT, and VP9 $4{\times}4$ IADST in a unified hardware. HEVC $4{\times}4$ IDCT and VP9 $4{\times}4$ IDCT have same IDCT computation except for the scales of coefficients. Similarly, HEVC $4{\times}4$ IDST and VP9 $4{\times}4$ IADST have same IDST computation except for the scales of coefficients. Furthermore, IDCT and IDST have quite a lot of similarity, so they can share some hardwares in common. So the proposed hardware performs all 4 operations in a unified hardware, where each operation has its own multiplication coefficients with shared butterfly adders. The synthesized block in 0.18 um technology is 6,679 gates, and the gate count is reduced by 25.3% in comparison with conventional designs.
Keywords
HEVC; VP9; IDCT; IDST; IADST; transform; unified architecture; area reduction;
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