Low Power Entropy Coding Hardware Design for H.264/AVC Baseline Profile Encoder

Low power hardware design for entropy coding of H.264/AVC baseline profile encoder is urgent for the increasing mobile applications. However, previous works are poor in the power performance. In this paper, the first low power Context-based Adaptive Variable Length Coding (CAVLC) scheme named the Side Information Aided (SIA) Symbol Look Ahead (SLA) one-pass CAVLC is proposed, with the non-zero and abs-one SIA flags. A reconfigurable architecture for the SLA module is also proposed to support the low power CAVLC scheme efficiently. The resultant hardware power is reduced by 69% to

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ICMCS
• Authors: Chuan-Yung Tsai, Tung-Chien Chen, Liang-Gee Chen
• Keywords: ICMCS 2006, Low Power, Low Power Hardware, first Low Power