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A low power H.264/AVC video decoder LSI for mobile applications is presented. Video decoding of quartercommon intermediate format (QCIF) sequence at 30 frames per second is achieved at 1.2MHz clock frequency and requires about 865µW at 1.8-V supply voltage. Moreover, CIF, SD and HD sequence format are also supported. The decoder architecture is based on 4x4 sub-block level pipelining that achieves better buffer allocation and decoding throughput. In addition, several modules are designed with new features to improve overall system throughput (up to 260,000 MacroBlock/sec). The proposed solution integrates 456-k logic gates with 161Kb of embedded SRAM in 0.18-µm single-poly sixmetal CMOS process with area of 11.3mm 2 .

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In this paper, we propose a 4x4-block level pipelining architecture with instantaneous switching scheme and optimal decoding ordering of H.264/AVC decoder. Compared with conventional H.264/AVC video decoders [1][2], which adopt macroblock level pipelines, our proposed 4x4-block level pipelining architecture of H.264/AVC decoder achieves better hardware utilization. Moreover, our proposed decoding ordering can effectively save memory access and reduce processing cycles, which results in 260,000 MB/s under 100MHz clock frequency. By adopting these two techniques, our proposed design supports real time decoding with 1080HD (1920x1088) video sequence in 30fps (244,800 MB/s required) and level 4 of baseline profile.

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