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UG453 (v1.1) April 23, 2008 www.xilinx.com H.264 Motion Estimation Engine Schedule of Figures Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Installing the H.264 Motion Estimation Engine Core Chapter 3: Designing with the H.264 Motion Estimation Engine Core Figure 3-1: H.264 Encoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

UG453 (v1.1) April 23, 2008 www.xilinx.com H.264 Motion Estimation Engine Schedule of Tables Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Installing the H.264 Motion Estimation Engine Core Chapter 3: Designing with the H.264 Motion Estimation Engine Core Chapter 4: Simulating the H. 264 Motion Estimation Engi...

H.264 Motion Estimation Engine www.xilinx.com 9 UG453 (v1.1) April 23, 2008 R Preface About This Guide This document is intended to guide the user through all aspects of installation, demonstration, simulation, verification, and general usage of the Motion Estimation Engine core. It should be read i...

10 www.xilinx.com H.264 Motion Estimation Engine UG453 (v1.1) April 23, 2008 Preface: About This Guide R Typographical The following typographical conventions are used in this document: Online Document The following conventions are used in this document: Convention Meaning or Use Example Courier fon...

H.264 Motion Estimation Engine www.xilinx.com 13 UG453 (v1.1) April 23, 2008 R Chapter 1 Introduction This user guide is required reading for the engineer using or considering using the Xilinx® Motion Estimation Engine core. The release of this product is given in ZIP file form. About the Core The X...

14 www.xilinx.com H.264 Motion Estimation Engine UG453 (v1.1) April 23, 2008 Chapter 1: Introduction R Feedback Xilinx welcomes comments and suggestions about the Motion Estimation Engine core and the accompanying documentation. For comments or suggestions about the Motion Estimation Engine core, su...

H.264 Motion Estimation Engine www.xilinx.com 15 UG453 (v1.1) April 23, 2008 R Chapter 2 Installing the H.264 Motion Estimation Engine Core This chapter provides instructions for installing the H. 264 Motion Estimation Engine core. The Motion Estimation Engine fixed netlist is provided under the Xil...

16 www.xilinx.com H.264 Motion Estimation Engine UG453 (v1.1) April 23, 2008 Chapter 2: Installing the H.264 Motion Estimation Engine Core R 4. Allow the extractor utility you use to overwrite all existing files and maintain the directory structure defined in the archive. See “ Appendix , “Supportin...

H.264 Motion Estimation Engine www.xilinx.com 17 UG453 (v1.1) April 23, 2008 R Chapter 3 Designing with the H.264 Motion Estimation Engine Core This chapter describes how to include a Motion Estimation Engine core into the next hierarchy of system architecture. VHDL Template Files To help the user d...

H.264 Motion Estimation Engine www.xilinx.com 21 UG453 (v1.1) April 22, 2008 R Chapter 4 Simulating the H. 264 Motion Estimation Engine Core This chapter describes a test bench architecture that was created in the ModelSim environment for simulation of the Motion Estimation Engine core. It does not ...

22 www.xilinx.com H.264 Motion Estimation Engine UG453 (v1.1) April 22, 2008 Chapter 4: Simulating the H. 264 Motion Estimation Engine Core R 4. Testbench source file: /HDL/LowCost_MotionEstimation/MotionEstimation/Testbench/ MotionEstimation_TB.vhd Running the Test Bench To run the test bench: 1. D...

H.264 Motion Estimation Engine www.xilinx.com 23 UG453 (v1.1) April 23, 2008 R Chapter 5 Verifying the System This chapter describes the verification environment delivered with the Motion Estimation Engine core. Ultimately, the system is verified by using long regression tests with several different...

24 www.xilinx.com H.264 Motion Estimation Engine UG453 (v1.1) April 23, 2008 Chapter 5: Verifying the System R Running the Verification Tests There are five tests that can be run by the user. Each test has varying characteristics, including varying video formats, parameter settings, etc. A descripti...

H.264 Motion Estimation Engine www.xilinx.com 25 UG453 (v1.1) April 23, 2008 Verification Notes R The command line in the batch script invokes the following processes in this order: 1. A DOS window is spawned. 2. A Perl script ( MotionEstimation_Verification.pl ) is called, which sets up the require...

H.264 Motion Estimation Engine www.xilinx.com 27 UG453 (v1.1) April 23, 2008 R Appendix Supporting Information Input Sequences The files provided as video input source files are: \InputSequences\city_4cif_30\city_4cif_30.hdr \InputSequences\city_4cif_30\city_4cif_30.yuv \InputSequences\football_cif_...

28 www.xilinx.com H.264 Motion Estimation Engine UG453 (v1.1) April 23, 2008 R References 1. ITU-T/ISO/IEC, Advanced Video Coding for Generic Audio Visual Services , H.264 03/2005. X-Ref Target - Figure A-1 Figure A-1: Directory Tree Structure