An Efficient Hardware Architecture for H.264 Intra Prediction Algorithm

In this paper, we present an efficient hardware architecture for real-time implementation of intra prediction algorithm used in H.264/MPEG4 part 10 video coding standard. The hardware design is based on a novel organization of the intra prediction equations. This hardware is designed to be used as part of a complete H.264 video coding system for portable applications. The proposed architecture is implemented in Verilog HDL. The Verilog RTL code is verified to work at 90 MHz in a Xilinx Virtex II FPGA. The FPGA implementation can process 27 VGA frames (640times480) per second