• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.326-329
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• 2016

HEVC CABAC encoder performs binary arithmetic encoding after syntax elements are converted into binary values. Therefore, in HEVC CABAC decoder, binarized syntax elements from binary arithmetic decoder should be de-binarized into original syntax elements in the de-binarizer. In this paper, a HEVC CABAC de-binarizer architecture was proposed and implemented. It consists of a controller that analyzes and merges binarized syntax elements and an engine that converts merged binarized syntax elements into original syntax elements. The designed de-binarizer was described in Verilog HDL and it was synthesized and verified in 0.18um process technology. Its gate count and maximum operating frequency are 3,114 gates and 220 MHz, respectively.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.435-438
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• 2016

HEVC CABAC binary arithmetic decoder operates in three decoding modes i.e. regular, bypass, and termination modes, where their decoding operations and time differ a lot. Furthermore, when renormalization occurs, its internal feedback loop induces large delay. In this paper, a binary arithmetic decoder was designed to solve this problem. In advance, it checks all range values with possible renormalization. When renormalization occurs, it immediately updates range value and finishes all calculation in a cycle. When implemented in 0.18 um process technology, its maximum operating frequency and gate counts are 215 MHz and 5,423 gates, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.385-390
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• 2013

This paper proposes an efficient hardware architecture of CABAC for HEVC decoder. The proposed method is structured to handle two bins in one cycle, while preserving data dependencies of the CABAC. In addition, the processing time of the proposed architecture is reduced because the operation using Offset and Range is processed while the architecture reads rLPS from rLPSROM. As a result of analyzing operating frequency of the proposed CABAC architecture, the proposed architecture has improved by 40% than the previous one.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.280-283
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• 2017

HEVC (high efficiency video coding) exploits CABAC (context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding) for entropy coding, where a context model estimates the probability for each syntax element. In this paper, a context modeler was designed and implemented for CABAC decoding. lookup table was used to reduce computation and to increase speed. 12 simulations for HEVC standard test sequences and encoder configurations were performed, and the context modeler was verified to perform correction operations. The designed context modeler was synthesized in 0.18um technology. Maximum frequency, maximum throughput, and gate count are 200 MHz, 200 Mbin/s, and 29,268 gates, respectively.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.5
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• pp.155-164
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• 2015

This paper describes a design and implementation of CABAC decoder, which would handle HEVC syntax elements in adaptively pipelined-parallel computation manner. Even though CABAC offers the high compression rate, it is limited in decoding performance due to context-based sequential computation, and strong data dependency between context models, as well as decoding procedure bin by bin. In order to enhance the decoding computation of HEVC CABAC, the flag-type syntax elements are adaptively pipelined by precomputing consecutive flag-type ones; and multi-bin syntax elements are decoded by processing bins in parallel up to three. Further, in order to accelerate Binary Arithmetic Decoder by reducing the critical path delay, the update and renormalization of context modeling are precomputed parallel for the cases of LPS as well as MPS, and then the context modeling renewal is selected by the precedent decoding result. It is simulated that the new HEVC CABAC architecture could achieve the max. performance of 1.01 bins/cycle, which is two times faster with respect to the conventional approach. In ASIC design with 65nm library, the CABAC architecture would handle 224 Mbins/sec, which could decode QFHD HEVC video data in real time.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.04a
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• pp.934-937
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• 2015

본 논문은 비디오 디코더의 병목현장을 해결하고 대량의 데이터를 처리할 수 있는 다중병렬처리방식의 HEVC CABAC 디코더를 소개한다. CABAC 디코더를 병렬화한 하드웨어 VLSI구조를 설계하여 크기 대비 높은 처리량이 나오는지를 설계 및 분석결과를 통해 연구결과를 도출하는 게 본 논문의 목적이다. CABAC 디코더 내부 module(산술 디코더, 문맥 모델러, 역이진화기) 1개에서 4개까지의 병렬화를 분석한 결과 4개의 병렬화를 했을 때가 크기 대비 처리량이 가장 높다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한 내부 module 4개를 병렬화한 CABAC 디코더 4개를 병렬화하여 slice 단위로 나눠진 프레임 1개를 한 번에 처리하는 방식을 채택하였다. 본 논문에서는 각 CABAC 디코더의 내부 module 4개를 병렬화하고, 병렬화한 CABAC 디코더 4개를 다시 병렬화하는 하드웨어 구조를 사용한다.