Operator Design Methodology and Implementation for H.264 Entropy Encoder

Currently the ASIC applications such as multimedia processing require shorter time-to-market and higher performance. Furthermore, with the IC manufacturing technology developing continually, from transistor level to logic gate level, the size of standard cells in digital circuits is increasing correspondingly. New methodology should be proposed to meet the need for shorter time-to-market IC industry, and the requirement of advanced IC manufacturing technology. This paper proposed the concept and principle of operator design methodology, then focused on the entropy coding application by the reconfigurable operator and finally gave the synthesis data. The results show that compared with the hardware design at the same cost of resources, this methodology can obtain hardware of suitable performance with regular structure. What is more, it can improve the design speed efficiently.