A 610 Mbin/s CABAC decoder for H.265/HEVC level 6.1 applications

Yijin Zhao; Jinjia Zhou; Dajiang Zhou; Satoshi Goto

doi:10.1109/ICIP.2014.7025253

A 610 Mbin/s CABAC decoder for H.265/HEVC level 6.1 applications

Yijin Zhao, Jinjia Zhou, Dajiang Zhou, Satoshi Goto

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Abstract

This paper presents a high-throughput decoder of HEVC context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC). A multi-sub-engine arithmetic decoder (MSE-AD) design is proposed to increase the average number of bins delivered per clock cycle by adaptively processing different patterns of upcoming bins with balanced critical path delay. A syntax element (SE) grouping scheme is proposed to maximize the utilization of MSE-AD under the SE parsing order specified in the standard. We also employ a prediction-based pipeline to alleviate the data hazard problem. The proposed CABAC decoder delivers 2.36 bins per clock cycle and achieves a maximum clock frequency of 258MHz in 90nm technology. The resulting performance is 610 Mbin/s which is enough for H.265/HEVC level 6.1 (8K×4K@60fps) applications.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2014
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1268-1272
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	9781479957514
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.2014.7025253
Publication status	Published - 2014 Jan 28

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Keywords

CABAC
entropy coding
H.265/HEVC
level 6.1

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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Zhao, Y., Zhou, J., Zhou, D., & Goto, S. (2014). A 610 Mbin/s CABAC decoder for H.265/HEVC level 6.1 applications. In 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2014 (pp. 1268-1272). [7025253] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.2014.7025253

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