• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.356-361
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• 2014

This paper proposes hardware architecture of HEVC (high efficiency video coding) CABAC (context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding) binarizer. The proposed binarizer was designed and implemented as an independent module that can be integrated into HEVC CABAC encoder. It generates each bin string of each syntax element in a single cycle. It consists of controller module, TU (truncated unary binarization) module, TR (truncated Rice binarization) module, FL (fixed length binarization) module, EGK (k-th order exp-Golomb coding) module, CALR (coeff_abs_level_remaining) module, QP Delta (cu_qp_delta_abs) module, Intra Pred (intra_chroma_pred_mode) module, Inter Pred (inter_pred_idc) module, and Part Mode (part_mode) module. The proposed binarizer was designed in Verilog HDL, and it was implemented in 45 nm technology. Its operating speed, gate count, and power consumption are 200 MHz, 1,678 gates, and 50 uW, respectively.

• 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.