A general-transformation EWA view rendering engine for 1080p video in 130 nm CMOS

Current digital video pipelines are progressing towards ever higher image resolutions and frame rates, a trend which increases computational requirements of mobile end-user devices. Moreover, due to the wide variety of devices with display sub-systems, video streams often need to be adapted to the capabilities of the respective platform. In this work, we present a rendering core that is able to perform spatially-varying geometrical transforms with implicit anti-aliasing in real-time on high-definition video. The rendering is realized with a high-quality elliptical weighted average (EWA) splatting algorithm. The ASIC implementation is fabricated in a 130nm CMOS technology, and is equipped with a standard display interface and a QDRII RAM interface. The ASIC achieves at least 1080p30 (full HD) video I/O, and is able to perform per-pixel transformation on the video stream in real-time and at low latency.