What system resources are required to support a design including the NDI FPGA Codecs?
To properly implement the FPGA codecs in the NDI Advanced SDK requires:
ARM (or x86) CPU running Linux for the NDI software libraries
Shared memory between the CPU and FPGA for communicating the compressed NDI data
Register access to the FPGA from the CPU
Frame buffer memory for the FPGA to store uncompressed video data (does not need to be visible to the CPU)
For these reasons the examples provided all target SoC+FPGA parts from Xilinx and Altera. Using an SoC+FPGA part is not mandatory, but anything else will require additional development effort and similar system performance (eg: a PCIe link to the FPGA could work well for transferring NDI compressed data and register I/O).
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