 High-end video applications and the related fields of still image and computer graphics processing benefit from high performance in all of the fundamental constituents of digital processing. The Achronix Speedster® FPGA family delivers that performance across the board:
The video world is home to many distinct (and converging) standards – old and new, analog and digital, high and low resolution, television-centric, film-centric, computer-centric, etc. These standards differ in color-space standards, frame rates, resolution, aspect ratio, compression mechanism, and many other features. Most high-end installations will need to process various mixtures of these standards, often in real time. While video and image editing tends to be a software-intensive activity, real-time processing requires hardware. For such applications, both reprogrammability and high performance (available with the Speedster family) are necessary attributes of a suitable platform. Key examples of such real-time video/graphic applications are:
Specific types of processing used include:
In high-end display technology, for example, a multiple input system needs to perform decoding, scaling, and scan conversion on many video streams, before combining them into a single stream. These parallel activities require:
For high-performance real-time video applications, Speedster FPGAs provide an extremely fast yet still reprogrammable platform. |