Patent ID: 7386651

Claim:
A method for storing a plurality of rows of blocks, said method comprising: storing each of a first sequence of blocks of a first row in particular ones of a plurality of banks according to a particular order, starting at a first and then a second of the plurality of banks; storing each of the blocks of a next row in particular ones of the plurality of banks according to the particular order, starting at a third and then a fourth of the plurality of banks, wherein the first sequence and the second sequence comprise a first block and a second block, through a last macroblock, and wherein storing each of the first sequence further comprises: storing the first macroblock in the first sequence in the first bank; storing the second macroblock in the first sequence in the second bank; and storing the last macroblock of the first sequence in a particular one of the plurality of banks according to the particular order; the method further comprising: stuffing each bank starting from the bank following the particular one of the plurality of banks to the second bank in the particular order.