Dedicated Design of Motion Estimator with Bits Truncation Fast Algorithm

Li JIANG
Dongju LI
Shintaro HABA
Chawalit HONSAWEK
Hiroaki KUNIEDA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E81-A    No.8    pp.1667-1675
Publication Date: 1998/08/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Digital Signal Processing)
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Keyword: 
MPEG,  HDTV,  VLSI,  MSPA,  bits truncation,  motion estimation,  

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Summary: 
In this paper, a dedicated hardware design for motion estimation LSI of MPEG2 is presented. Combining our bits truncation adaptive pyramid (BTAP) algorithm with Window-MSPA architecture, the hardware cost is tremendously reduced without PSNR performance degradation for mean pyramid algorithm. The core of the test chip working at 83 MHz, performs a search range of 67 for image size of 1920 1152 and achieves video rate of 60 field/s. It can be used for HDTV purpose. The chip size is 4. 8 mm 4. 8 mm with 0. 5u 2-level metal CMOS technology. The result in this paper shows our promising future to realize one chip HDTV MPEG2 encoder.