Adder compressors (ACs) have been employed for several prominent computing datapaths
as multipliers, machine learning, discrete transforms, and filters. This brief investigates the …

The electric generator's functional performance suffers from harmonic distortions such as
first, second, and third-order. This work proposes a low power dissipation VLSI hardware …

The Hadamard-based Sum of Absolute Transformed Differences (SATD) is a distortion
metric that correlates better with other video encoding steps than the commonly used Sum of …

Video coding systems have to deal with a number of tradeoffs. The decision of adopting a
specific distortion metric in the Fractional Motion Estimation (FME) step, for instance …

Adder compressors (AC) have been extensively used in digital circuits like multipliers and
transforms where several multi-bit operands have to be summed in parallel. Most available …

Sum of Absolute Transformed Differences (SATD) is a distortion metric based on the
Hadamard Transform. It is used in current video encoders inside the refinement stage of …

Adder compressor architectures have been widely used in multipliers and have recently
achieved improvements over conventional approaches in the computation of multiple …

Over the years, the use of adder compressors has been a promising alternative to reduce
power of dedicated hardware architectures. Adder compressors are able to perform several …

Connecting billions of network cameras to the cloud is a challenge that heavily taxes the
network bandwidth for video transmissions. High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard …

This paper presents the first known high-level synthesis (HLS) implementation for the Sum of
Absolute Transformed Differences (SATD) calculation. The proposed hardware architecture …