A monolithic programmable Ultra-HD video codec engine

Author

Sanghvi, Hetul ; Mody, Mihir ; Nandan, Nibedita ; Mehendale, Mahesh ; Das, S. ; Mandal, Dipan Kumar ; Nainala, Vyagrheswarudu ; Baireddy, Vijayavardhan ; Shastry, Pavan

Author_Institution

Texas Instrum., Bangalore, India

fYear

2014

fDate

4-9 May 2014

Firstpage

1399

Lastpage

1403

Abstract

With advances in video coding standards like H.264 and HEVC coupled with those in the display technology, Ultra HD contents have started taking the mainstream. This is driving the need for high computation and memory bandwidth in current multi-media SOCs. In this paper, we present a monolithic multi-format video codec engine which achieves Ultra HD performance for H.264 High Profile, reduces the external memory bandwidth requirement by 2X as compared to its predecessor and takes only 5.9 mm² of silicon area in a low power 28nm process.

Keywords

DRAM chips; video codecs; video coding; H.264 video coding standards; HEVC video coding standards; display technology; monolithic multiformat video codec engine; monolithic programmable ultra-HD video codec engine; multimedia SOC; Bandwidth; Engines; High definition video; SDRAM; Standards; Streaming media; Video codecs; 4K; Architecture; Cache; H.264; Multi-format; Ultra HD; VLSI; Video Engine; full-HD;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2014 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Florence

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6853827

Filename

6853827