Size reduction in complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor integrated circuits (ICs) is a
challenge. Carbon nanotube field effect transistor (CNTFET) technology with advantages …

A new 1‐bit full adder (FA) cell illustrating low‐power, high‐speed, and a small area is
presented by a combination of transmission gate (TG), pass transistor logic (PTL), and float …

Approximate computing is established as a design alternative to improve the energy
requirements of a vast number of applications, leveraging their intrinsic error tolerance …

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 …

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 …