H.264 CODEC Blocks Implementation on FPGA

Abstract: H.264/AVC (Advance Video Coding) standard developed by ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group(VCEG) and ISO/IEC JTC1 Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), is one of the most powerful andcommonly used format for video compression. It is mostly used in internet streaming sources i.e.from media servers to end users. This Master thesis aims at designing a CODEC targeting the Baseline profile on FPGA.Uncompressed raw data is fed into the encoder in units of macroblocks of 16×16 pixels. At thedecoder side the compressed bit stream is taken and the original frame is restored. Emphasis isput on the implementation of CODEC at RTL level and investigate the effect of certain parameterssuch as Quantisation Parameter (QP) on overall compression of the frame rather than investigatingmultiple solutions of a specified block of CODEC.