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Find informational videos, webcasts, and other resources to learn more about Intel's scalable and flexible FPGA solutions for broadcast applications and how we contribute to broadcast consortia.
Intel® FPGA Solutions
Building 8K and Ultra HD Solution with Intel® FPGAs
Learn how Intel® FPGAs are using in digital displays such as video conference, video streaming, video white boards, and medical imaging equipment.
HDMI Audio to I2S Demo
Watch this demo showing how audio can be extracted from an HDMI source using an Intel® FPGA.
NAB 2016: UDX10 4K60 Video Processing Solutions
UDX10 reference design up down conversion 4K60 UHD (RGB 4:4:4 10b) with HDMI 2.0.
NAB 2016: Robust 4K60 Transport Over a Single 12G SDI Link
SMPTE ST-2082 demonstration in Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA.
Intel Partner Solutions
NAB 2016: Studio Video Over IP (SVIP) TR-03/04 Solutions
Multiple 3G video streams over SMPTE ST 2022-6, AES67 audio streams, and IEEE 1588 sync performing a complete solution with discovery, registration, and connection management.
Broadcast Consortia and Government Agencies
Intel and our partners participate in and contribute to broadcast consortia.
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| JTNM (VSF) | The Joint Task Force on Networked Media (JTNM) workswith the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and the Video Services Forum (VSF) to deliver a comprehensive overview of user requirements and technologies. |
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| VESA | VESA is an international non-profit corporation that supports and sets industry-wide interface standards for PCs, workstations, and consumer electronics. VESA gives companies in these industries a way to develop, promote, and support open display standards. |
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| HDMI | HDMI is used to connect high-definition equipment with an all-digital interface. HDMI is used by over 1,200 of consumer electronics, PC, and mobile device manufacturers worldwide. |
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| DisplayPort PlugTest | VESA organizes PlugTests for DisplayPort vendors and designers. |
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CableLabs is a non-profit research and development consortium that develops cable telecommunications technologies to help its members integrate technical advancements into their business objectives. |
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| JCT-VC | The Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) includes video coding experts whose goal is to develop a next-generation video coding standard to reduce the data rate needed for high quality video coding. |
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| AVNU | Members of the AVnu Alliance use open standards and certfication to ensure that their networked devices are synchronized, reliable, and low latency. Nearly all of the Ethernet silicon manufacturers are members of AVnu. The AVnu Alliance works towards a certified networking system and simplifies synchronization by building standards for Audio Video Bridging (AVB) and Time Synchronized Networking (TSN) into Ethernet. |
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The IEEE defines standards for real-time (isochronous) information between data-intensive applications. |
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SMPTE defines standards for digital film production (both television and motion pictures). The society also publishes American National Standards Institute (ANSI)-approved standards, recommended practices, and engineering guidelines that are used worldwide. |
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Glossary
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| Term or # | Description |
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| 1394 | The standard for a digital connection or bus used to transfer data between two independent systems. The 1394a standard provides 400-Mbps bandwidth and the reach is limited to 3 or 4 meters. The 1394b standard extends the bandwidth to 800 Mbps and the reach to a whole-house environment. |
| 1080p | Type of high-definition television (HDTV) image that is 1,080 vertical lines by 1,920 horizontal pixels wide, displayed in an progressive format. It has a 16:9 aspect ratio. |
| 1080i | Type of high-definition television (HDTV) image that is 1,080 vertical lines by 1,920 horizontal pixels wide, displayed in an interlaced format. (It has a 16:9 aspect ratio, 29.97 Hz frame rate, as defined by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standard.) |
| 720p | Type of high-definition television (HDTV) image that is 720 vertical lines by 1,280 horizontal pixels wide, displayed in progressive format. (It has a 16:9 aspect ratio, 59.94 Hz, 29.97 Hz, and 23.98 Hz frame rates, as defined by the ATSC standard.) |
| 480p | High-definition television (HDTV) image that is 480 vertical lines by 720 horizontal pixels displayed in progressive format. (It has a 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio, 59.94 Hz, 29.97 Hz, and 23.98 Hz frame rates, as defined by the ATSC standard.) |
| 480i | Type of standard digital television (SDTV) image that is 480 lines by 720 pixels wide, displayed in interlaced format. (It has a 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio, 29.97-Hz frame rate, as defined by the ATSC standard.) |
| 4K | 4K resolution displays have a horizontal resolution of approximately 4,000 pixels. Ultra-high-definition televisions are called 4K, although the resolution is only 3840 x 2160. |
| Analog | A type of waveform signal that contains information such as image, voice, and data. Analog signals have unpredictable height (amplitude) and width (frequency) and can vary infinitely over a given range. |
| Aspect Ratio | Ratio between the width and height of the video image. Standard National Television System Committee (NTSC), phase-alternation line (PAL), Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) (standard definition), and digital video broadcasting (DVB) (standard definition) use a 4:3 ratio; ATSC and DVB high-definition formats use a 16:9 format. |
| Asynchronous Serial Interface (ASI) | Transmission standard defined by the Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) used to connect video delivery equipment within a cable, satellite, or terrestrial plant. |
| Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) | Committee established by the FCC to define new standards for publicly regulated broadcast television in the United States. |
| Advanced Television Enhancement Forum (ATVEF) | A standard for combining intellectual property (IP) data with television video. |
| B Frame | An MPEG-2 compressed video frame derived by extrapolation between previous and future frames. |
| Bandwidth | A measure of the capacity of a circuit or channel -- the amount of information transferred between points within a specified time period. |
| Broadband | Term that generally refers to high-bandwidth capacity. Broadband has a multi-channel capacity that is greater than or equal to 45 Mbps (US standard) or 34 Mbps (European/international standard). |
| Conditional Access (CA) | A cryptographic technique for controlling which receivers are able to access a particular signal. |
| Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (COFDM) | The modulation scheme selected by the DVB committee for digital terrestrial broadcast television. (See Modulation.) |
| Compression | A mathematical method of reducing the amount of digital information needed to re-create a television picture or frame. |
| Content Protection (CP) | Cryptographic and design techniques used to limit how data flows within a receiving device and between devices. This is generally used to restrict copying of copyright-protected material. |
| Datacasting | Jargon referring to the propagation of information from one source to another source. |
| Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) | This international telecommunications standard details how to add high-bandwidth data to existing cable TV systems. |
| Deep Color | Deep color systems support 30, 36, and 48 bits for three RGB colors. |
| Demodulation | A method for extracting digital information stored in a specific pattern on a radio frequency (RF) signal. |
| Digital | Information sent as a series of high (1) and low (0) signals separated by a fixed period of time. |
| Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) | A step used in the MPEG coding process to convert data from spatial to temporal domain. |
| Digital Light Projection (DLP) | A technique developed by Texas Instruments that creates a video image on a piece of silicon and uses mirrors and light to project the image onto a viewable screen. |
| Digital Satellite Service (DSS) | MPEG-2-based digital transmission format (e.g., DirectTV). |
| Digital Set-Top-Box (DSTB) | A device that receives and decodes digital video broadcasts for consumer viewing. |
| Digital Television (DTV) | A device that receives, decodes, and displays digital video broadcasts (in both high-definition and standard-definition formats) for consumer viewing. |
| Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) | MPEG-2-based digital television standard that defines formats for cable, satellite, and terrestrial broadcast. |
| Encryption | A mathematical technique for scrambling information such that only those with a key piece of information can unscramble the information to recreate the original message. |
| Enhanced Television | Any of several techniques for providing a viewer with additional information associated with a television program or advertisement. |
| Federal Communications Commission (FCC) | The U.S. government body responsible for setting and enforcing regulations of transmissions over publicly accessible airwaves. |
| Frame | The lines and columns of pixels that make up the displayed image. Video speed, expressed as frames per second (FPS), gives the rate at which the video image is updated. |
| High-Definition Television (HDTV) | High-definition video formats that have 16:9 aspect ratio. Generally refers to 1080p, 1080i, or 720p images. |
| High Frame Rate (HFR) | This rate refers to frame rates higher than the typical 24 Hz for motion pictures and 30 Hz for other applications. |
| High-Dynamic-Range (HDR) Imaging | These imaging and photographic techniques are used to create a greater range of luminosity compared to standard methods. |
| Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) | Standard text format used for internet documents. |
| I Frame | An MPEG-2-compressed video frame containing most of the original information. Used as a reference to build subsequent B and P frames. |
| Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (IDCT) | A step in the MPEG decoding process to convert data from temporal back to spatial domain. |
| Interactive Television | A capability in DTV or DSTB that allows a user to control the action of the television and view the results of his/her action on the television. |
| Interlaced | A scanning technique in a video system where odd and even horizontal lines of a video frame are displayed during alternating update cycles. Lines 1, 3, 5, etc., are displayed during the first cycle, creating one field. Lines 2, 4, 6, etc., are displayed on the second cycle, creating the next field. Two fields combine to make one frame. |
| Macrovision | A copy-protection scheme that inhibits illegal copying of analog television programs. Macrovision Corporation developed and licenses the technology. |
| Modulation | A technique for embedding digital information in a radio carrier wave for broadcast. |
| Motion Compensation (MC) | A step in the MPEG-2 video decompression (decoding) process. |
| MPEG-2 | A digital video and audio compression (encoding) technique defined by the Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG). |
| Multicasting | Generally, multicasting refers to propagation from one source to only a subset of potential destinations. It also means a technique for simultaneously sending multiple DTV programs on a single channel. The frequency used to carry a single analog television program can be used to carry up to six digital programs. |
| National Television System Committee (NTSC) | The committee that decided on the compatible color television system for the US. The FCC adopted it in 1953. |
| Over the Top (OTT) | OTT is a broadcasting term that describes audio, video, and other media delivered over the internet without a multiple system operator controlling or distributing the content. |
| Phase-Alternating Line (PAL) | The analog color video composite system developed in Europe and used by countries around the world. It is similar to the NTSC standard, but it uses a sub-carrier phase alternation technique that makes certain kinds of transmission errors appear to cancel. |
| P Frame | An MPEG-2 compressed video frame containing original information and information derived from previous frames. |
| Pixel | The smallest unit of color in a display. Frames are made up of lines and columns of pixels. The number of pixel lines in each frame expresses video resolution. |
| Plasma Display Panel (PDP) | Flat panel display using plasma electronic technology. |
| Pay-Per-View (PPV) | A technique of controlling television access whereby the customer is charged on the basis of what programs he/she watches. |
| Progressive | A picture-scanning process where all the lines of the image are scanned by every vertical scan. |
| Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) | A modulation method used by cable DTV that combines changes in phase and amplitude to send four bits with each baud. |
| Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) | A modulation method used by satellite DTV that transmits information by varying the phase of a sine wave. |
| Radio Frequency (RF) | Refers to the use of radio carrier waves to transmit a broadcast signal. (See "Modulation".) |
| Red, Green, Blue (RGB) | The basic color signals used to drive a display. |
| Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) | Used to store video programming in video production and delivery environments. |
| Serial Data Transport Interface (SDTI) | Transmission standard defined by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) to transmit compressed digital video using serial digital video interface (SDI) connections. |
| Serial Digital Video Interface (SDI) | Transmission standard defined by SMPTE which is used to connect video production equipment to transfer SD video at 270, 360, or 540 Mbps and HD video at 1.485 Gbps. |
| Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) | Forum that defines standards for television and film production. |
| Standard Definition Television (SDTV) | Standard definition video format that has 4:3 aspect ratio. Generally refers to 480i. |
| Terrestrial Television | Television signals broadcast from local radio towers. Homes with antennas capable of picking up the broadcast signals are able to receive the television program. |
| Transport Stream (TS) | Data stream that includes ancillary data, compressed video, and compressed audio. |
| UHD-1 and UHD-2 | Ultra-high-definition displays have screen resolutions four times higher than full HD displays. ITU BT.2020 defines two standards with different pixel resolutions: UHD-1 at 3840 x 2160 and UDH-2 at 7680 X 4320 pixels. |
| Universal Serial Bus (USB) | A digital connection between two separate electronic devices which provides "plug-and-play" capability. |
| Video on Demand (VOD) | The viewer pays a small fee to the television service provider in order to watch particular movies listed on the on-screen television menu. Similar to pay-per-view. |
| Vestigial Sideband (VSB) | Modulation scheme selected by the US Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) for digital terrestrial broadcast television. (See "Modulation".) |
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