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H.264/AVC introduces many new tools to achieve better coding performance, but at the expense of high computational complexity. Hardware cost and encoding performance are the two main challenges in designing a high-performance H.264/AVC encoder. We have proposed several high-performance architectures for the functional units in an H.264/AVC encoder. In addition, external memory management is another design issue. We have to access an external memory up to 3.3GBps for real-time encoding 1080pHD video in our encoder. We propose several AMBA-compliant memory access units to efficiently access an external memory. We will present our H.264/AVC encoder in this chapter.

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    Prof. Youn-Long Steve Lin, Chao-Yang Kao, Huang-Chih Kuo & Jian-Wen Chen

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Lin, YL.S., Kao, CY., Kuo, HC., Chen, JW. (2010). System Integration. In: VLSI Design for Video Coding. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0959-6_9

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