H264/AVC Video Codec IP Core

 

The Yongatek H.264/AVC hardware encoder is designed as a modular system with small, efficient, low-power components that perform well-defined tasks. Its main design goal was to make a scalable encoder for megapixel images suitable for use in camera heads and low power recorders.

The Yongatek H264/AVC Encoder IP core is a video encoder that supports the Baseline/Main/High Profiles of the ITU-T H.264 standard. It accepts the highest Full HD video stream as the video input and outputs the encoded bitstream. A single core can encode video up to 1920 × 1080 resolution up to 30 fps. The output bit stream can be decoded by any ITU-T H.264/AVC compliant decoder that meets the level requirements of the stream. Yongatek offers two types of encoders to meet the different goals of H.264/AVC resource utilization and compression:

  • H264-Enc-I : Because it only uses intra mode, the IP core is smaller but provides less compression. It does not require external memory.
  • H264-Enc-P : Because the inter and intra modes are used together, the kernel provides significantly better compression but uses more resources.

Yongatek H.264/AVC Codec Key Features

  • Supports 4: 2: 0, 4: 2: 2 and 4: 4: 4 YCbCr digital video input
  • Supports 8-10-12 bit color depth
  • Processing speed per pixel supports 2.5 clk cycles
  • Very low latency (16 lines' time) from first pixel input.
  • Profile Level up to 4.1
  • Supports all resolutions multiples of 16
  • No CPU required for encoding
  • Supports CBR (Constant bit rate), VBR (Variable bit rate) 
  • Provides CAVLC coding. (Available soon CABAC)
  • Supports Deblocking filter
  • Provides low bandwidth usage in external memory(DDR2/3/4)
  • Device independent design(Intel, Microsemi, Lattice and Xilinx Fpga)
  • Safe CDC transfers when using more than one clock domain
  • No special timing constraints required
    • No false or multi-cycle paths within the same clock domain
    • No CDC transfers that need to be constrained (all CDC paths can be excluded)
  • Silicon Verified on TSMC 65nm

Yongatek H.264/AVC Codec  Interfaces

Yongatek, offers AXI or Avalon bus standards to meet the interface requirements of customers.

  • Configuration Interface: AXI4-Lite/Avalon-MM slave with a 32 bits interface and 40 registers to control all the necessary parameters of encoding.
  • Video in/out interface: AXI4-Stream/Avalon-ST interface with a data width of 32 bits for reading video input pixel and writing coded video output.
  • External memory interface: (only H264-Enc-P) AXI4-Full/Avalon-MM interface with a data width of 32 bits, for reading/writing reconstructed frames.

Applications

  • Multimedia systems
  • Digital video recorders
  • Video processing systems
  • Video surveillance systems
  • Security cameras store and transmit
  • UAV video transfer

IP Deliverables

  • Pre-synthesized and verified netlist for Fpga devices
  • RTL source code
  • Bit accurate C model
  • Complete test-bench
  • Integration Manual documents
  • Release Notes, Design Specification