Video Processing in an FPGA-Enabled Ethernet Switch

Carriage of uncompressed HD video using IP holds great potential for enhancing the flexibility of broadcast plants while reducing the number of cables required through aggregation of signals using statistical multiplexing. The broadcast industry is just beginning to determine the appropriate architectures to best utilize professional video-over-IP capabilities. The Arista 7124FX Application Switch is a 10GbE data center class Ethernet switch that also supports application acceleration through the use of an on-board FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) without adding network jitter. A proof-of-concept has been developed to show how an FPGA-enabled switch can perform frame accurate video stream switching of SMPTE 2022-6 RTP flows.

Published

2013-10

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

SMPTE 2022-6, FPGA, Ethernet, SDI, RTP, 10GbE

DOI

10.5594/M001498

ISBN

978-1-61482-953-9