A 256 mW 40 Mbps Full-HD H.264 High-Profile Codec Featuring a Dual-Macroblock Pipeline Architecture in 65 nm CMOS

Abstract

<para xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> A video-size-scalable H.264 High-Profile codec including 19 application-specific CPUs for extensibility to multiple standards has been fabricated in 65 nm CMOS. With two parallel pipelines for macroblock processing, the codec consumed 256 mW in real-time encoding of 40 Mbps full-HD (1080p30) video at an operating frequency of 162 MHz. </para>