4K UHD@60fps Design For The VVC Affine Motion Estimation Reconstructor
Marcello M. Muñoz, Denis Maass, Murilo Perleberg, Luciano Volcan Agostini, Guilherme Corrêa, Marcelo Porto · 2023
The Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard adopts the Affine Motion Estimation (AME) as one of its main novelties, which significantly contributed to the coding efficiency gains of VVC over previous standards. On the other hand, AME requires a very high computational effort for processing high-resolution videos in real-time, making dedicated hardware mandatory for battery-powered devices. Considering this scenario, this work presents a dedicated hardware design for the Affine Reconstructor of the VVC standard targeting an ASIC TSMC 40nm standard-cell technology. The synthesis results show 94.4k Gates of area requirements, with 15.36 mW of power dissipation when targeting the processing of 60 fps of 4K Ultra-High Definition (UHD) videos. To the best of the author's knowledge, the presented design is the first in the literature targeting the Affine Reconstructor of the VVC standard.