A 1.41W H.264/AVC Real-Time Encoder SOC for HDTV1080P

Abstract

A H.264/AVC baseline-profile real-time encoder for HDTV-1080p at 30 fps is implemented with the dedicated hardware engines and one 32-bit Media embedded Processor (MeP) equipped with hardware extensions. The 11.5 Gbps 64 Mb system-in-silicon DRAMA is embedded to alleviate the external memory bandwidth. With TSMC 0.18 m CMOS technology, the SoC core occupies 27.1 mm die area and consumes 1.41 W at 200MHz in typical work conditions.