A 162 Mbit/s variable length decoding circuit using an adaptive tree search technique

Abstract

A high-speed Huffman decoder for real-time video applications has been developed. The most dominant part of MPEG video bit-stream, DCT coefficients, can be decoded in 4 cycles or less using the proposed circuit, while the table size is smaller than the case of the conventional binary search. Bit-streams can be decoded up to 6 bit/cycle, which enables 162 Mbit/s decoding at 27 MHz.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>