A High-Throughput Hardware Architecture for the H.264/AVC Half-Pixel Motion Estimation Targeting High-Definition Videos

Table 5

Half-Pixel ME Refinement cost results.

Module	Slices	Slice Flip-Flops	4-input LUTs
Filter Line; (Half-Pixel Interpolation Unit)	1606	470	3051
SAD Trees (4 STs)	480	196	996
SAD Comparator	64	34	105
Half-Pixel ME Search Unit	544	230	1001
Control Unit	18	8	29
Complete Half-Pixel ME Refinement Architecture	2168	708	4081