Consultancy

OmniTek is the product division of Image Processing Techniques Ltd., a leading UK consultancy company providing electronics design services to the broadcast and post-production industries for the past ten years. The primary goal is to provide a pool of expertise in all aspects of video system design that is available to any company in the industry. This philosophy has been demonstrated many times through successful design contracts performed for companies in the USA, Singapore, Japan, and the UK.

Our team of expert design consultants are fully conversant with all the requirements of the latest high-definition video systems, and we have specialists in all aspects of electronic product design from initial concept through to implementation, manufacture, and test.
 

Core Competences

• Product design for the broadcast, post-production, and digital film industries.
• Development of real-time image processing algorithms in hardware, FPGA firmware, and software.
• Electronic circuit design using the latest technology CAD tools and semiconductor devices.
• Software development for real-time systems using Windows, Linux, and VxWorks operating systems.
• Product testing and validation: Our extensive laboratory facilities are equipped with the latest test and measurement technology.
• Turnkey product development: Design, prototyping, and manufacture of all electronic and mechanical assemblies.

Case Studies

Intelligent Display Server

Detailed design of a high-resolution LCD controller assembly, including 3D RGB colour-cube, quad-split framestore, high-quality 2D resize, and motion-adaptive de-interlacer.

 

HDTV Digital Video Effects Processor

Design of a multi-format image transform engine for installation in a master control switcher. Capable of linear and non-linear (warp) transforms. Floating-point CPU support engine.

 

Multi-Channel Broadcast Status Monitor

Complete turnkey design of multi-channel video and audio status monitoring system for playout centres. Supports HD-SDI and composite analog video inputs, plus AES and Dolby audio. Web browser control interface plus SNMP and interfaces to station automation systems.

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Reference Designs & Development Platforms

	Audio Video Development Kit for Altera Arria II GX The Arria II GX Audio Video Development Kit combines Altera’s proven FPGA-based development hardware and associated IP with OmniTek’s expertise in video algorithm IP and PCI Express interface design to offer a PCIe Gen1-based image processing environment centred on Altera’s Arria II FPGA family. OmniTek is an Altera Certified Design Center.
	PCIe DMA Controller and Video Streaming Reference Design for Altera Stratix IV GX and Altera Arria II GX This PCIe-based DMA Controller features highly-efficient use of the PCIe bus bandwidth. It offers a configurable number of channels of memory-based DMAs and FIFO-based which are more suitable for video or audio streaming. The controller has been designed for implementation in Altera Stratix IV GX or Arria II GX FPGAs and takes advantage of the built-in PCIe hard macros in these devices. The IP is supplied as VHDL or Verilog IP along with C++ windows drivers and an application reference design for the corresponding Altera FPGA AV Dev Kit. The Stratix IV version of the reference design demonstrates bi-directional streaming of four 3G A 1080p video streams over 4 lane Gen2 PCI Express bus.
	Xilinx FPGA-based Advanced Video Development Platform OmniTek's Advanced Video Development Platform is a Xilinx FPGA-based signal processing card specifically targeted at design engineers who need a fast and reliable method to prototype new algorithms and techniques. The package also includes an extensive set of VHDL source code for a variety of complex image processing functions, plus a software API and drivers operating under the XP or Vista operating systems.