The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) serial digital interface (SDI) family of standards is widely used in professional 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 12-SDI, collectively referred to as UHD-SDI, are recent extensions to the SDI family of standards that provide more bandwidth to transport Ultra HD video formats and higher frame rate HD video formats.
The AMD LogiCORE™ SMPTE UHD-SDI IP is a 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 UHD-SDI IP with the AMD 7 series FPGA GTX transceivers to form a complete UHD-SDI interface. This application note also provides an example SDI design that runs on the KC705 board.
Download the reference design files for this application note from the AMD website. For detailed information about the design files, see Reference Design.