A highly efficient VLSI architecture for H.264/AVC CAVLC decoder

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-41

  Lin, Heng Yao ^a,b   Lu, Ying Hong ^b   Liu, Bin Da ^a,b   Yang, Jar Ferr ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Context based adaptive variable length coding (CAVLC); H.264 AVC; Variable length coding

Indexed keywords

DECODING; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ADAPTIVE DETECTION; CONTEXT BASED ADAPTIVE VARIABLE LENGTH CODING; DECODER SYSTEM PERFORMANCE; VARIABLE LENGTH CODING;

VLSI CIRCUITS;

EID: 37449029106     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2007.911299     Document Type: Article

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