LogiCORE IP H.264 Motion Estimation - Release Notes and Known Issues

This Answer Record contains the Release Notes and Known Issues list for the LogiCORE IP H.264 Motion Estimation IP.

The following information is listed for each version of the core:

- New Features

- Bug Fixes

- Known Issues

LogiCORE IP H.264 Motion Estimation Lounge:

This IP has been Discontinued and there is no replacement.

http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/customer_notices/xcn08022.pdf

General LogiCORE IP H.264 Motion Estimation Issues

- N/A

LogiCORE IP H.264 Motion Estimation v1.0

- Initial Release October 24, 2007

New Features

H.264/MPEG-4 Part10 Baseline/Main/High Profiles @ Level 4.1

- Compliant with International Standard ISO/IEC 14496-10:2005 (E) Rec. H.264 (E)

- 1080i@60 fields per second or 1080p@30 frames per second operation at 275 MHz

- 720p@30 frames per second operation at 130 MHz

- Integrated coded block pattern generation

- 8x4 blocks search for full pel locations

- 112 x 128 search range

- 120 candidate positions (10 predictors with 4x3 region around each predictor)

- External memory bandwidth 1.65 Gbit/s (720p@30) to 3.74 Gbit/s (1080i@60)

- Selectable reference frame at frame update through frame pointer parameter

- User input prediction vectors

- Optional output port for all SAD values and Motion Vectors

Bug Fixes

- N/A

Known Issues

- N/A