Research Article

A Systematic Hardware Sharing Method for Unified Architecture Design of H.264 Transforms

Table 5

A comparison of the gate count, frequency, latency, and throughput for H.264 transform FOSS architectures.

Gate countFreq. (MHz)LatencyThroughput (pixels/cycle)

1D 8 × 8 forward285331318
1D 8 × 8 inverse509629218
2D 4 × 4 forward429930618
2D 4 × 4 inverse582128518
2D 4 × 4 Hadamard543730218
2D 2 × 2 Hadamard103238514

Total25438N/AN/AN/A