A 125Mpixels/sec full-HD MPEG-2/H.264/VC-1 video decoder for Blu-ray applications

A fully-compliant high-definition video decoder LSI for Blu-ray Disc (BD) player is presented. It supports MPEC-2 MP@HL, H.264 HP@L4.1, and VC-1 AP@L3 video decoding in a single chip and features resource sharing and memory management unit to achieve area/throughput efficiency. A test chip is fabricated and integrates 515 K logic gates with 522 Kbits of embedded SRAM in 90nm single-poly seven-metal CMOS process with area of 5.06 mm². For Blu-ray player requirements, video decoding of full 1920times1080 high-definition sequences at 60 frames per second requires 125 Mpixels/sec of processing throughput which is two times higher than comparable designs [5][6] and is achieved at 200 MHz clock frequency with power dissipation of 317 mW at 1.0 V supply voltage.