Division-Free Multiquantization Scheme for Modern Video Codecs

Table 5

Comparison of multiquantization schemes (VLSI implementation).

Codecs	No. of gates
H.264 [2]	1.75 K
AVS [11]	7.2 K
MPEG-2/4 [12]	9 K
JPEG [24]	4.1 K
VC-1 [21]	9 K
Estimated total cost (5 codecs—standalone)	31.1 K
Proposed (all 5 codecs—shared)	19.6 K