Research Article

A Memory Hierarchy Model Based on Data Reuse for Full-Search Motion Estimation on High-Definition Digital Videos

Table 1

Experimental results.

Search windowBlock sizeCandidate blocksBandwidth Ext. mem. (Mbytes/sec)Bandwidth ME core (Gbytes/sec)Clock cyclesOn-chip memory (Kbytes)Registers (Kbytes)PSNR (dB)

32 × 3216 × 16289179.015.8741.500.534.00
8 × 8625299.634.81.250.2535.90

64 × 6416 × 162,401302.6136.32665.00135.41
8 × 83,249547.8184.94.500.537.64

96 × 9616 × 166,561430.1375.458610.501.535.90
8 × 87,921803.9453.89.750.7538.26