A Low-Cost, FPGA Based, Video Streaming Server

Author

Stewart, Graeme ; Renshaw, David ; Riley, Martyn

Author_Institution

Inst. for Syst. Level Integration, Livingston

fYear

2007

fDate

28-26 Feb. 2007

Firstpage

187

Lastpage

190

Abstract

The design of a platform based video streaming server using the Xilinx microblaze processor and a custom H.263 hardware compression core is presented. The design uses a novel data structure to store the input images in external memory, allowing the H.263 core and the associated camera interface to utilise the external memory bandwidth more efficiently. The finished system is capable of encoding and streaming, using the real-time transport protocol, Dl sized video, at 30 frames per second in a Spartan-3 1500 FPGA device.

Keywords

data compression; data structures; field programmable gate arrays; microprocessor chips; transport protocols; video coding; video servers; video streaming; Dl sized video; H.263 hardware compression core; Spartan-3 1500 FPGA device; Xilinx microblaze processor; associated camera interface; data structure; external memory bandwidth; input images; real-time transport protocol; video streaming server; Bandwidth; Cameras; Data structures; Encoding; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Image coding; Real time systems; Streaming media; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Programmable Logic, 2007. SPL '07. 2007 3rd Southern Conference on

Conference_Location

Mar del Plata

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0606-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPL.2007.371746

Filename

4234343