… 4/spl times/4-block level pipelining architecture with instantaneous switching scheme and
optimal decoding … AVC video decoders, which adopt macroblock level pipelines, our proposed …

… pipelining, and frame-level pipelining. Previous designs of video decoders are usually
based on MB pipeline scheme [2]. In H.264, 4×4-block is the smallest element of the prediction …

… to be very time consuming in the decoder of this new video coding standard. … 4×4 block
edges of a picture, except for the edges at the boundary of the picture. Therefore, most of the 4×4 …

… The cycle time for a single stage in the 4 × 4 block pipeline … the pipeline needs to be
synchronized every 4 × 4 block. Assuming a 4:2:0 chrominance format, the total time for decoding a …

… Basic idea of such strategy is to hide external memory latency with a welldesigned pipeline.
To explain the pipeline, we first divide the processing of each basic block in cache into four …

… AVC, not only the pipeline structure but also efficient memory hierarchy is required. The …
scheme including 4×4-block-level pipelining, MB-level pipelining, and frame-level pipelining. …

… baseline profile decoder based on an SOC platform design methodology. The overall decoding
… We minimize the number ofbus accesses and use macroblock level pipeline processing …

… The bottom horizontal edge of this 4 ×4 block will be processed when its below … each
pipeline stage and to solve pipeline data and structure hazards [26, 80]. For multisymbol decoding …

… a hybrid 4 4 block/macroblock pipeline scheme. In this work, a 4 4 block pipelining scheme
… the 4 4 block level, DVFS allows the decoder to address the varying workload at the frame …

… 4 block level pipeline. Based on the different prediction requirements, the prediction pipeline
… 4 level pipeline requires the calculation of each 4 4 block in double-z order instead of …