Real-time VLSI architecture for video compression

Video compression is becoming increasingly important in several applications. Vector quantization (VQ) is a powerful technique for very low bit rate image/video compression and is an attractive technique for mobile multimedia applications. Adaptive VQ techniques provide an excellent coding performance at the expense of significant increases in computational complexity making real-time implementation difficult. We propose a VLSI chip-set design to implement a high performance cache based (adaptive) VQ (CVQ) technique using VHDL for real-time video compression