This chapter presents a frame memory compression method used in video coding. Frame memory compression compresses the data to be stored in the frame memory in order to reduce the external bandwidth and the related power consumption, as shown in Figure 7.1. When the pixels of a motion-compensated frame have to be written into external DRAM, the frame memory compression engine compresses those pixels. During motion estimation (ME), the frame memory compression engine decompresses the compressed pixels of previous frames and passes them to the video codec. As shown in Figure 7.2, most of the frame memory compression algorithms are composed of three stages: prediction, entropy coding and memory organization [1], which are respectively introduced in Sections 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3.
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