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Int. J. Communications, Network and Sy stem Sciences, 2010, 3, 453-461 doi:10.4236/ij cns.2010.35060 Published Online May 2010 (http ://www.SciRP.org/j ournal/ijcns/) ASIP Solution for Implementation of H.264 Multi Resolution Motion Estimation Fethi Tlili, Akram Ghorbel CITRA COM Research Laboratory, Engineering School of Communications(S UP COM), Tunis, Tunisia E-mail:f ethi.tlili@sup com.rnu.tn Received March 19, 2010; revised Ap ril 20, 2010; accep ted May 15, 2010 Abstract Motion estimation is the most important module in H.264 video encoding algorithm since it offer the best compression ratio compared to intra prediction and entropy encoding. However, using the allowed features for inter prediction such as variable block size matching, multi-reference frames and fractional pel search needs a lot of computation cycles. For this purpose, we propose in this paper an Application Specific Instruc- tion-set Processor (ASIP) solution for implementing inter prediction. An exhaustive full and fractional pel combined with variable block size matching search are used. The solution, implemented in FPGA, offers both performance and flexibility to the user to reconfigure the search algorithm. Keywords: Motion Estimation, Half Pel, Quarter Pel, ASIP 1. Introduction coding efficiency as well as more flexibility in most of the coding process. The fast growth of digital transmission services has cre- However, H.264 is also a substantially more complex ated a great interest in digital transmission of image and standard than MPEG-2; and both the H.264 encoders and video signals. These signals require very high bit rates