Design of fiber channel based high speed serial transmitter for video protocol on FPGA

Fiber channel (FC) based implementations have become a ubiquitous choice for most of the high-performance video multimedia storage networks and display units. FC is being considered a kind of communication architecture in the field of avionics for a variety of next generation aircrafts. However the...

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Main Authors: Nesaragi, Naimahmed, Kumar, B. Pradeep, Ananda, C. M., Suganthi, J.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Blanking
Containers
Fiber Channel
GTP
Objects
Optical transmitters
Payloads
Protocols
SFP
Streaming media
Synchronization
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Summary:Fiber channel (FC) based implementations have become a ubiquitous choice for most of the high-performance video multimedia storage networks and display units. FC is being considered a kind of communication architecture in the field of avionics for a variety of next generation aircrafts. However the challenge faced by designers is how to realize the complicated FC protocols implementation in a feasible way. The paper addresses this problem by describing the development of high speed transmitter section right from conceptual design to hardware implementation. A customized protocol is proposed which is used by the transmitter for video transmission over fiber channel with a point to point link to drive display units. The protocol is video-centric supporting real time transmission in which four different objects i.e. progressive video, interlaced video, audio and data are considered. The transmitter plays the role of Serialiser using Gigabit Transceiver Port (GTP) and converts the parallel data available from the video source into serial via optical transceiver. It adopts SP605 FPGA through Small-Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) transceiver for the implementation. The proposed protocol supports any video resolution; however experiments carried out with an example of a 1024×768 RGB video frame validates the data transfer rate of 144M bytes/sec which is further added with protocol overheads and blanking fields to achieve a standard link rate of 2.125Gbps.
ISSN:2151-7703
DOI:10.1109/WOCN.2015.8064515