solution brief

Accelerating Video Innovations with Intel® FPGAs

In today’s competitive market, it is crucial to continuously innovate to differentiate against new entrants using standardized off-the-shelf products. Video markets continue to evolve with new technologies and trends, such as:

• 8K ultra high definition (UHD) and higher resolutions, the shift to video over IP, and the use of artificial intelligence for video analytics

• New form factors, such as interactive display modules, and new video connectivity standards, such as HDMI* 2.1.

Intel® FPGAs – with its modular intellectual property (IP) architecture, early-to-market pre-canned IP cores, and ready-to-go reference design hardware – enable original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to quickly add new features or accommodate end customer specific requirements for a wide range of video markets.

8K UHD 60 frames per second (fps) is becoming a reality, with all major television vendors announcing their 8K/HDMI 2.1 products at CES 2019 and the plan for the first live broadcast at the Japan Olympics in 2020. Intel FPGAs provide fast time to market and a comprehensive portfolio of professional-grade video processing and connectivity solutions across multiple end markets, such as test equipment, Pro A/V applications, and medical diagnostics.

Create flexible, high-performance 8K UHD solutions with Intel FPGAs combined with video image processing and connectivity IP cores.

Figure 1. Intel® ecosystem hardware form factors such as interactive display modules, Open Pluggable Specification (OPS+) and FPGA Vision Accelerator Boards enable new requirements and applications in high growth markets such as professional displays or retail.

Broadcast and Professional Audio/Video8K Video with HDMI 2.1

Figure 2. Intel® FPGA pre-canned video processing blocks are system verified to convert any incoming resolution and frame rate to any output

8K UHD Solution

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RGBYCrCb 4:4:4YCbCr 4:2:2YCbCr 4:2:0

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HDMI 2.1

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MIPI

Composite

• Supporting new HDMI 2.1 fixed rate link performance (Figure 3)

• Compliant with HDMI 2.0 solution (in production)

• Deep color mode, up to 8-channel audio

HDMI IP

Figure 3. Intel’s HDMI 2.1 IP passing QD980 protocol tester 8K data rate

• Certified HDCP* 1.4/2.3 and interoperability with HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort* 1.4, including optional display screen compression (DSC)

• Comprehensive hardware key storage and management solution

• Certified SMPTE* 2110

• 1/10/25GE ready

• Virtualized solution coming in 2019

• Over 20 Intel FPGA IP functions with support for all Intel FPGAs

• 1080p/4K/8K, HDR ready, 120+ fps, 16 bps

• Easy integration with video connectivity IP cores, such as HDMI, DisplayPort, SMPTE 2110, 12G SDI, and MIPI, and codecs, such as JPEG2000*, TICO*, DSC*, and MPEG*

• Visual quality exceeds ASSPs

• Highly configurable enabling solution differentiation

• Intel Arria® 10 FPGA-based 8K UHD reference design

• Upgrade to 600 Mhz with Intel Stratix® 10 FPGAs

• Compliant with DisplayPort 1.4

• Multi-stream transport source/sink and link quality analysis

• 12G SDI*, MIPI*, SLVS-EC*, and LVDS*

HDCP IP

Video over IP

DisplayPort IP

Other video connectivity IP

Solution Brief | Intel Video Solutions

Figure 5. Intel® FPGA VIP Suite II IP Blocks

The Intel® FPGA Video and Image Processing (VIP) Suite II is a “plug and play” IP portfolio, offering a highly-integrated and flexible alternative to video application-specific standard products (ASSPs). Combined with easily integrated connectivity IP cores, the VIP Suite II provides a design philosophy for rapid new design creation and easy integration of custom value-add features, such as upgrading designs from 4K to 8K resolutions with no system redesign. VIP Suite II IP blocks (Figure 5) support a wide range of resolutions, fps, bit rate per second (bps), and color planes. By design, the modular architecture allows fast accommodation of future requirements.

8K-Ready Video and Image Processing Suite

Video IN

Clocked VideoInput

Avalon®-ST Video

2D FIR Filter

Alpha BlendingMixer

Avalon-ST VideoStream Cleaner

Avalon-ST VideoMonitor

BroadcastDeinterlacer

ChromaResampler

Clipper

Color PlaneSequencer

Color SpaceConverter

ControlSynchronizer

Deinterlacer

Frame Buffer

Frame Reader

Avalon-ST Video

Clocked VideoOutput

Video OUT

GammaCorrector

Interlacer

Scaler

Switch

Test PatternGenerator

Trace System

Figure 4. Intel Vision Accelerator Design with Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA

The OpenVINO™ toolkit from Intel is a comprehensive set of deep learning and computer vision libraries that extend across Intel’s hardware portfolio to maximize performance in a vast range of different vision applications. Accelerate your vision workloads with Intel FPGA accelerator boards available today supporting large networks up to 4-billion parameters. Get more info at https://software.intel.com/en-us/openvino-toolkit.

Smart Video Analytics Using AI, FPGAs, and Intel Vision Accelerator Solutions

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