A Low-Cost CAVLC Encoder

Pei-Yin CHEN
Yi-Ming LIN

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E89-C    No.12    pp.1950-1953
Publication Date: 2006/12/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1353
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e89-c.12.1950
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Electronic Circuits
Keyword: 
H.264,  low-cost,  context-based adaptive variable length coding,  

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Summary: 
In H.264, the context-based adaptive variable length coding (CAVLC) is used for lossless compression. Direct table-lookup implementation requires higher cost because it employs a larger memory to produce the encoded results. In this letter, we present a more efficient technique for CAVLC implementation. Compared with those previous CAVLC chips, our design requires the lowest hardware cost.