Speed up your Video Designs with Omnitek technology

Video engineering design consultancy Omnitek is spinning out its in-house expertise in high speed video interfacing technologies to enable manufacturers to speed up their own designs and catch the wave of UHD without breaking the bank on expensive development teams and long timescales.

With off the shelf IP-cores and custom designs for blue-chip clients, Omnitek has many years experience of developing firmware and design-for-manufacture PCBs. The latest technology to be called for in the broadcast market is the 12Gb/s serial digital interface (12G-SDI) which can carry uncompressed full colour 4K and UHD video at 60 frames per second, making it a strong contender for the 4K production format of choice. To achieve the long cable runs that successful deployment of 12G-SDI requires, means understanding the new physical layer design constraints that apply at one inch wavelengths. The companys team of consultant engineers has a wealth of knowledge of signal path integrity techniques, characteristics of PCB substrates and tracking routing rules, providing a painless and lower cost short cut to 12G designs.

Enabling simple translation to uncompressed video over IP and SDI carried on optical fibre, electrical 12G-SDI on coaxial cable is an SMPTE standard and can be transferred easily from existing 4K infrastructures based on 4-cables of 3G-SDI. Omniteks 12Gb/s designs and use of new driver and equalizer technologies reach distances of over 50m, making 12G-SDI a viable single cable point-to-point technology for 4K video systems.

About Omnitek:

Omnitek was formed in 2001 and specializes in video test and measurement equipment and in FPGA IP, development boards and design services for video-related products. In 2008 OmniTek was awarded a Queens Award for Enterprise, for innovation.

Additional information is available from www.omnitek.tv

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