Versatile Video Coding (VVC) is the next generation video coding standard expected by the end of 2020. VVC introduces several new coding tools that enable better coding performance compared to the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard. The Multiple Transform Selection (MTS) concept, as introduced in VVC, relies on three trigonometrical transforms, and at the encoder side, selects the couple of horizontal and vertical transforms that maximises the Rate-Distortion cost. However, the new Discrete Sine Transform (DST)-VII and Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT)-VIII do not have fast computing algorithms and rely on matrix multiplication, which requires high hardware resources especially for large block sizes. This paper tackles the hardware implementation of an approximation of MTS module. This approximation consists in applying adjustment stages, based on sparse block-band matrices, to a variants of DCT-II family mainly DCT-II and its inverse. Therefore, an efficient 2D hardware implementation of the forward and inverse approximate transform module is proposed. The architecture design includes a pipelined and reconfigurable forward-inverse DCT-II core transform. A unified 2D implementation of 16 and 32-point forward-inverse DCT-II, approximate DST-VII and DCT-VIII is also presented. The synthesis results show that the design is able to sustain 2K and 4K videos at 377 and 94 frames per second, respectively, while using only 18% of Alms, 40% of registers and 34% of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) blocks of the Arria10 SoC platform.
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