An Efficient Data Reuse Motion Estimation Engine

We present a novel motion estimation engine (MEE) architecture that efficiently reuses search area data while fully utilizing the hardware resources. A 2-D processing element (PE) core is central to the architecture. Search area data flows both horizontally as well as vertically while the current block data is stationary. A clever PE design ensures simple but highly regular dataflow through the core avoiding long interconnect delays. For a search range of [-16,+15] and block size of 16, our architecture can perform motion estimation for 60 fps of 4CIF video at 100 MHz