Comprehensive Hardware Codec solution using iWave’s Zynq

UltraScale+ FPGA SOM

Over the past years, live video streaming has undergone major technological advancements, triggering large scale
implications in various commercial and industrial applications such as Security Surveillance System and online
video broadcast. Advancements in video compression standards such as H.264 (AVC) and H.265 (HEVC) have
made it possible for users to stream Full HD and 4K videos in real time with high quality and detailing, while taking
up less bandwidth and processing time.

Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC is an ideal hardware platform to overcome all the challenges faced by the ASIC platforms.
Unlike typical application processors, Zynq MPSoC integrates heterogeneous high-performance ARM® multicore
Cortex A53 CPU, Real-Time Cortex R5 CPU, Graphics Processor, Video Codecs, multiprocessing system with
programmable logic cells. Quad Core application processor equipped devices deliver maximum scalability and are
capable of offloading critical applications such as graphics and video pipelining, to dedicated processing HW codecs,
along with a full complement of integrated peripherals, connectivity and a space for the programmability in FPGA.
The MPSoC SOM supports the following various hardware codec features,

 Simultaneous Encode and Decode through separate cores

 H.264 high profile level 5.2 (4K@60fps)
 H.265 (HEVC) main, main10 profile, level 5.1, high Tier, up to 4K@60fps
 8 and 10 bit encoding
 4:2:0 and 4:2:2 Chroma sampling
 Low Latency Mode

SOM Solution offered by iWave:

iWave Systems have devised a SOM solution for implementing these advanced hardware Codecs using the latest FPGA
integrated SoC technology which offers lot of flexibility to user by having the high-end ARM cores, graphic cores
together with varying programmable logic density.

Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC / FPGA SOM Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC Development - Kit

iWave systems has the stock of various ZU4, ZU5, ZU7 MPSoC based SOMs and also provides the comprehensive
development board for immediate evaluation.