Barco JPEG 2000 User manual

JPEG 2000 solutions
Overcoming challenges through smart design
•Support for untiled 1080p and 4K images
•High performance across a broad range of JPEG 2000 options
•Built for high-speed applications
•Cost effective single chip solutions
•Minimized obsolescence risks

Barco Silex
An undisputed center of excellence for JPEG 2000 solutions
Barco Silex is an acknowledged center of
excellence for micro-electronics design.
Over recent years, it has developed a
comprehensive range of proven and
highly flexible JPEG 2000 encoder and
decoder solutions, including IP cores
(both for ASIC and FPGA), reference
designs, and acceleration boards.
The company’s leadership in cus-
tom electronics design began back in
1991 and since that time Barco Silex
has acquired unique expertise in ASIC,
FPGA, DSP and BOARD technologies. It
is through drawing on this heritage that
today’s design team has produced a
comprehensive range of world-beating
JPEG 2000 solutions.
This latest generation of Barco Silex JPEG
2000 solutions comprises remarkably
flexible, high-end products that can more
than meet the requirements of demand-
ing applications such as acquisition,
Barco Silex is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Barco, the 3,500-
employee global technology com-
pany that specializes in profes-
sional visualization products.
As such, it has complete access to
the resources, skills and expertise
of Barco’s worldwide network
of research, development and
support services.
production, wireless video, broadcast,
and digital cinema. And these deliver
real-time coding of multiple high-reso-
lution channels – in spite of being both
compact and affordable.
Best of all, the people at Barco Silex of-
fer unrivalled customization services,
and flexible and continuing support that
can last throughout the lifecycle of every
product.
From IP core to board
•Encoder+decoderIPcores
(ASIC, FPGA)
•Referencedesign
•Accelerationboards
•Customizationcapabilities

A JPEG 2000 solution for every JPEG 2000 challenge
JPEG 2000 IP cores
We at Barco Silex have developed a
range of JPEG 2000 cores suitable for
every performance intensive applica-
tion. Those remarkably flexible cores
have already been proven in high-end
market environments, and support
multi-channel DCI 2K and 4K, HD 1080i
and 1080p.
We have architected our latest genera-
tion of cores to provide the highest stan-
dards of performance quality, flexibility,
speed and compactness.
•Quality: support of untiled images for
1080p and 4K.
•Flexibility: support for the widest
spectrum of JPEG 2000 options, in-
cluding configurable frame size, and
software-based user control across all
parameters.
•Speed: Barco Silex actively targets
the fastest applications where tens or
hundreds of millions of samples per
second are processed.
•Compactness: cost-effective, single-
chip solutions with limited pin counts.
Barco Silex cores are not restricted to a
single device type. They can optimize
FPGA, Structured ASIC or fully custom-
ized ASIC technologies.
JPEG 2000 IP cores
•DCI 2K, DCI 4K, HD 1080i, HD 1080p
•FPGA, ASIC, structured ASIC
•High-quality
•Flexible, fast, compact
•Encoders and decoders
JPEG 2000 ASIC
We have been designing ASICs since
1991 and have worked with many found-
ries all over the world. This has brought
us an acknowledged leadership in the
field that many of our ASIC JPEG 2000
solution customers find valuable. We
offer a completely customized ASIC flow
with full JPEG 2000 integration delivered
as prototypes. Naturally, we can also
manage production, on request.
Our engineers provide expert advice
on the most appropriate solution for
each customer. For example, someone
requiring low to medium volumes would
normally find a structured ASIC product,
with its low entry costs, most cost
effective. Meanwhile, we would usually
advise a customer with a requirement
for medium to high volumes to opt for a
standard cell ASIC solution, which has a
low unit cost.
The possibility of any standard IC
becoming obsolete is an ever-present
risk. However, that risk can be managed
by conversion to technologies that carry
long-term support. Barco Silex has

extensive experience in providing end of
life solutions for discontinued ASIC/ICs.
Moreover, the company’s solid history
is your best guarantee for reliable and
enduring solutions.
JPEG 2000 ASIC
•Custom integrated solution
•Low entry cost structured ASIC
• Low unit price standard cell
JPEG 2000 DCPB-2000 Boards
The DCPB-2000 is a PCI-Express acceler-
ation board family, which performs JPEG
2000 compression and decompression.
It is capable of processing HD 1080p60
and DCI 2K streams in real time.
Simply by plugging a member of our
DCPB-2000 product family into a PC one
achieves tremendous acceleration in
the JPEG 2000 processing flow. Indeed,
one can easily reach real-time coding
of very high resolution pictures, such as
2K digital cinema frames or 1080p HD
pictures.
Making no compromise on quality, the
DCPB-2000 family is able to encode and
decode untiled images at resolutions up
to 1080p and DCI formats up to 4K. Even
in such a demanding environment, no
tile effects appear and very high stan-
dards of quality are preserved. Moreover,
the DCPB-2000 family features a unique
rate allocation module, which can be
configured in constant bitrate or constant
quality mode. So the user can generate
high-quality JPEG 2000 codestreams at
various bitrates.
Because they are so compact, DCPB-2000
boards make an excellent alternative to
PC clusters. Although they offer a real-
time encoding and decoding capability
in a PCIe form factor, they are built on
FPGA technology, which provides the
added advantages of flexibility and up-
gradeability, along with a lower risk of
obsolescence.
The DCPB-2000 can be used for a wide
variety of applications such as acquisi-
tion, production, archiving, mastering
and contribution networks.

Features
JPEG 2000 IP Cores
Reference Core
BA110
High-Definition Video/Digital Cinema JPEG 2000 encoder (HD/DCI)
Complete JPEG 2000 encoding solution for high-end video storage and transmissions and digital cinema
From pixels to j2c codestream
Flexible resolutions, including full 2K and 4K, 1080p and 1080i, 720p, 480i
XYZ, RGB, YUV (4:4:4 or 4:2:2) color spaces
Up to 12 bits per sample
Flexible optimal rate allocation
BA109
High-Definition Video/Digital Cinema JPEG 2000 decoder (HD/DCI)
Complete JPEG 2000 decoding solution for high-end video storage and transmissions and digital cinema
From j2c codestream to pixels
Flexible resolutions, including full 2K and 4K, 1080p and 1080i, 720p, 480i
XYZ, RGB, YUV (4:4:4 or 4:2:2) color spaces
Up to 12 bits per sample
JPEG 2000 Boards
Reference Board
DCPB-2100
Digital Cinema JPEG 2000 encoder board
PCI-Express acceleration board for compression of digital cinema content
From RGB/XYZ samples to DCI-compliant j2c codestream
Single tile images up to DCI 4K
Flexible optimal rate allocation
SDK, including drivers and API
DCPB-2140
Digital Cinema JPEG 2000 decoder board
PCI-Express acceleration board for decompression of digital cinema content
From DCI-compliant j2c codestream to RGB/XYZ samples
Single tile images up to DCI 4K
SDK, including drivers and API
DCPB-2120
High-Definition JPEG 2000 encoder board
PCI-Express acceleration board for compression of broadcast content
From YCbCr 4:2:2 samples to j2c codestream
Single tile images up to 1080p
Multi-stream capability
Flexible optimal rate allocation
SDK, including drivers and API
DCPB-2160
High-Definition JPEG 2000 decoder board
PCI-Express acceleration board for decompression of broadcast content
From j2c codestream to YCbCr 4:2:2 samples
Single tile images up to 1080p
Multi-stream capability
SDK, including drivers and API

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Barco JPEG 2000 solutions
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with many years’ experience in all as-
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