HEVC Implementation for IoT Applications

Effective compression guarantees that IoT will continue spreading to cover various devices. High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265, is the most recent video coding standard; it introduces new coding methods compared to older popular standards. Such a change has a great impact on both encoder complexity and speed as it provides bitrate reduction up to 50% compared to H.264/AVC while keeping the same video quality. Unfortunately, HEVC is computationally intensive, relatively slow and power consuming. Therefore, hardware implementation is desirable to get over these drawbacks. This work introduces an efficient implementation of HEVC encoder/decoder Algorithm targeting low power solutions in order to be compatible with the IoT devices. Verflog language was chosen as an HDL to carry over the implemented design to hardware. In addition, an analytical comparison of the implemented hardware and the related work is presented. The comparison is based on encoding performance such as power consumption and compression speed.