A flexible high-throughput VLSI architecture with 2-D data-reuse for full-search motion estimation

This paper describes a data-interlacing architecture with two-dimensional (2-D) data-reuse for full-search block-matching algorithm. Based on a one-dimensional processing element (PE) array and two data-interlacing shift-register arrays, the proposed architecture can efficiently reuse data to decrease external memory accesses and save the pin counts. It also achieves 100% hardware utilization and a high throughput rate. In addition, the same chips can be cascaded for different block sizes, search ranges, and pixel rates.