High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the newest video coding standard approved by the ISO/IEC and ITU-T in January 2013. By providing a video coding efficiency gain up to 50 % compared to H. 264/MPEG-4 AVC high profile, the complexity of the used algorithms has raised significantly. Targeting video formats with higher spatial and temporal resolutions - e.g. 4Kp60 in broadcast applications make implementing encoders and decoders a challenging task. A few software based implementations on DSPs and general purpose CPUs are known from the literature which suffer from real-time constraints, power dissipation and hardware costs of these systems. In this paper a pure hardware implementation of a Main Profile H. 265/MPEG-HEVC Full HD capable decoder is presented solving both real-time and power constraints respectively. As a first implementation approach a state-of-the-art FPGA technology is chosen as a prototyping platform. This design can be used as a starting point for an ASIC implementation(1)

The novel High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard targets a broad set of different video formats ranging from QVGA up to Ultra-HD (4Kp60) resolutions. Especially the high spatial and temporal resolutions combined with the high algorithmic complexity makes implementing encoders and decoders a challenging task. Existing software based implementations on multi-core CPUs and/or DSPs suffer from real-Time constraints, power dissipation and hardware costs of these systems. In this paper a hardware implementation of a Full HD capable H.265/HEVC video decoder is presented targeting these constraints. The demonstrated video decoder incorporates recent standard improvements, namely H.265/HEVC version 2, by supporting enhanced video format range extensions for high quality video applications

In this paper we present a prototype of a mobile terminal which features the scalable extension of H.264/AVC namely SVC. Due to the fact that SVC uses most of the basic algorithms which can be found in H.264/AVC, we've analyzed how an existing H.264/AVC decoder can be used for SVC to build a complete terminal. This terminal will be used for an upcoming LTE field trial in Berlin/Germany promoting SVC as a video coding standard in a broadcast scenario