The PolarFire™ FPGA- based image and video processing solution offers superior capabilities compared to other technologies, achieving resolutions up to 4K in the small footprint and low power consumption required by a wide range of image and video processing applications.
Designers demand high-performance computing, memory, and connectivity resources for high-resolution image processing with fidelity and detail intensity. FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) are excellent platforms for achieving this, as they can perform thousands of tasks in parallel to maximize data processing.
Microchip's award-winning PolarFire FPGAs, announced in February 2017 by Microsemi Corporation, now a subsidiary of Microchip, are ideal for these mid-bandwidth (4K/2K) image and video processing applications thanks to their powerful memory and digital signal processor (DSP) capabilities. They also reduce power consumption by up to 50% compared to devices based on SRAM (Static Random-Access Memory).
This new image and video processing solution offers customers a complete ecosystem comprised of application-specific hardware, an image processing intellectual property package, demonstration designs, and other accessories. This provides designers with the necessary hardware and software to implement 4K resolution designs targeting PolarFire FPGAs.
This video and image processing kit enables high-performance evaluation of 4K processing and playback using dual-camera sensors for
design demonstrations, including image blending, static and dynamic object insertion, and true depth estimation based on disparity maps. The kit, with its modular intellectual property package, empowers customers to develop prototypes and accelerate time to market, and can be used across numerous projects to reduce costs, time, and effort.
The kit also incorporates standard image processing interfaces and integrates 4 GB of fourth-generation DDR4 memory and 1 GB of flash memory for frame buffering and user configuration, respectively. It features the bidirectional MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) as the sensor interface and the option to choose between HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) and DSI (Display Serial Interface) for the screen and SDI (Serial Digital Interface) for broadcast quality video. The kit also facilitates the evaluation of reference designs for picture-in-picture (PiP) and edge detection with configurable resolution and image signal parameters. These features enhance the suitability of the PolarFire FPGA-based image and video processing solution for numerous applications across diverse markets, including surveillance and IP (Internet Protocol) cameras, automotive and other offline/mobile applications, machine vision/medical, smart homes, and others in the industrial, aerospace/aviation, and defense sectors.
Learn more about Microchip's PolarFire FPGAs.
The PolarFire-based image and video processing solution includes specialized hardware for evaluating various image and video processing protocols on PolarFire FPGAs. The development kit, optimized intellectual property package, sample reference designs, demonstration designs, and accessories are also part of the complete solution ecosystem. The kit includes a free one-year gold license for Libero® SoC Design Suite, Microchip's comprehensive development tool.
A processing kit is now available. Microchip's PolarFire FPGA-based image and video system, the MPF300-VIDEO-KIT.