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- February 24, 2025
Case Study
Video Pipeline implementation for an Endoscopy device
Client
A Tier-1 medical technology company catering to a wide variety of medical equipment approached Ignitarium to implement an FPGA-based video pipeline for an endoscopy device.
Challenges
Ignitarium was tasked with creating the entire FPGA-based solution for converting the
endoscopy camera feed to processed video to be directly displayed on two HDMI 4K
displays. The challenges were
• Entire scope from architecture to FPGA Validation had to be undertaken
• 4K SDI IP was obsoleted by FPGA vendor. No support available
• Latency had to be less than 1 frame
• Frame processing features like rotation and logo insertion had to be incorporated
Solution
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Handled entire scope from architecture, FPGA design, Embedded software
development, integration, unit testing and system testing
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Complete FPGA pipeline using both Altera IPs and Custom IPs
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Custom video algorithms for mixing and rotation
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Involved in both FPGA implementation and firmware running on Nios2
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Latency kept to within a frame using custom software implementation
Business Impact
Complete ownership of the program from FPGA architecture to system testing in a Fixed Price model
Solution is in production and powering the customers marquee endoscopy product
