An Overview of Dedicated Hardware Designs for State-of-the-Art AV1 and H.266/VVC Video Codecs
Mário Saldanha, Marcel Corrêa, Guilherme Corrêa, Daniel Palomino, Marcelo Porto, Bruno Zatt, Luciano Agostini
Abstract
This paper presents an overview of published works related to dedicated hardware designs for the recent AV1 codec and the H.266/VVC video coding standard. We describe the main coding tools comparing them between AV1 and H.266/VVC codecs to highlight the new algorithms and techniques employed to improve coding efficiency. Then, we present the main published works proposing FPGA/ASIC hardware designs for AV1 and H.266/VVC. It is possible to observe that most of the published works focus on the challenge of implementing the new coding tools of both codecs to attend high throughput demands, such as real-time processing of 1080p, UHD 4K and UHD 8K resolutions.