An Overview of Dedicated Hardware Designs for State-of-the-Art AV1 and H.266/VVC Video Codecs

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of published works related to dedicated hardware designs for the recent AV1 codec and the H.266/VVC video coding standard. We describe the main coding tools comparing them between AV1 and H.266/VVC codecs to highlight the new algorithms and techniques employed to improve coding efficiency. Then, we present the main published works proposing FPGA/ASIC hardware designs for AV1 and H.266/VVC. It is possible to observe that most of the published works focus on the challenge of implementing the new coding tools of both codecs to attend high throughput demands, such as real-time processing of 1080p, UHD 4K and UHD 8K resolutions.