The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) serial digital interface (SDI) family of standards is widely used in professional broadcast video equipment. These interfaces are used in broadcast studios and video production centers to carry uncompressed digital video, along with embedded ancillary data such as multiple audio channels. 6G-SDI and 12G-SDI, collectively referred to as UHD-SDI, are recent extensions to the SDI family of standards that provide increased bandwidth to transport Ultra HD (UHD) video formats and higher frame rate HD video formats.
The AMD LogiCORE™ IP SMPTE UHD-SDI core is a generic UHD-SDI receive/transmit datapath that does not have any device-specific control functions. This application note provides a module containing control logic to couple the SMPTE UHD-SDI LogiCORE IP with the AMD UltraScale™ GTH transceivers to form a complete UHD-SDI interface. This application note also provides an example SDI design that runs on the UltraScale FPGA KCU105 evaluation board.
Download the reference design files for this application note from the website (registration required). For detailed information about the design files, see Reference Design.