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This paper presents a high-performance hardware architecture for the H.264/AVC Half-Pixel Motion Estimation that targets high-definition videos. This design can process very high-definition videos like QHDTV () in real time (30 frames per second). It also presents an optimized arrangement of interpolated samples, which is the main key to achieve an efficient search. The interpolation process is interleaved with the SAD calculation and comparison, allowing the high throughput. The architecture was fully described in VHDL, synthesized for two different Xilinx FPGA devices, and it achieved very good results when compared to related works.

This paper presents a hardware design for the H.264/AVC Eighth-Pixel Chrominance Interpolation Unit that is a part of the Motion Compensation Unit. The architecture was optimized to reach a high throughput through a balanced pipeline and internal parallelism exploration. The design was described in VHDL and synthesized to a Xilinx Virtex2p FPGA. The best performance results achieve an operation frequency of 100 MHz, processing up to 42 QHDTV frames (3840x2048 pixels) per second.

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