Unleash image sensor dataflows
Thanks to its innovative processing and coding, the full power of the image sensor is preserved while reducing the bandwidth and storage needs. It offers high image quality and the capability to manage high resolution, high frame rate and high dynamic range workflows. TICO-RAW is the world’s first codec that can offer compression efficiency with such low complexity on Bayer or Bayer-like Color Filter Arrays (CFA) patterns.
High quality RAW:
Perfect for human and machine vision
Microsecond latency
Line-based processing
Less than 1 millisecond
Perfect RAW image quality
Compresses RAW-Bayer down to 1 bit per pixel
Supports image sensors up to 16 bit
HDR-capability
Low power & complexity
Extremely low resource usage
Extremely low memory (SRAMs) usage
(no external DRAM usage)
Any resolution
From 1 to 100 megapixels
Includes embedded proxy
decoding mode
Where can TICO-RAW be implemented?
Where can TICO-RAW be implemented?
LENS
IMAGE
SENSOR
CAMERA
MODULE
PROCESSOR
& MEMORY
NETWORK
PROCESSING
& STORAGE
The best of RAW at LOWER BANDWIDTH & FASTER SPEED
- Ultra-Low-Power consumption: process and manage more pixels from the sensor.
- Support higher resolution, high frame rate and high dynamic range easily in the camera RAW workflows
- Reduce the bandwidth of memory in the image processing pipeline between RAW data and display data.
- Get the lowest latency ("pixel-line") transmission over network infrastructures.
- Efficiently decrease the stored RAW image data on the storage media (or get the same size as JPEG but with the full flexibility of RAW).
- Increase the editing, rendering, analytics speed and while retaining the sensor data needed for a complete control of the RAW processing pipeline.
Examples of typical operating bitrates
| SENSOR FORMATS | TICO-RAW @ 2 BPP | TICO-RAW @ 1 BPP |
| Width x height @ frames per second | Mbit/s | Mbit/s |
| 1920 x 1080 RAW @ 60fps | 250 Mbps | 125 Mbps |
| 4096 x 2160 RAW @ 60fps | 1 Gbps | 500 Mbps |
| 3840 x 2160 RAW @ 120fps | 2 Gbps | 1 Gbps |
| 7680 x 4320 RAW @ 60fps | 4 Gbps | 2 Gbps |
Compression ratios
| BIT DEPTH | 2 BPP | 1 BPP |
| 10 | 5:1 | 10:1 |
| 12 | 6:1 | 12:1 |
| 14 | 7:1 | 14:1 |
| 16 | 8:1 | 16:1 |
Specifications
| IMAGE | Color format | CFA RAW Bayer (RGGB, RCCB, ...) (optional monochrome and 4:2:2 mode) |
| Bit depth | 8 / 10 / 12 /16 bits per component | |
| Resolution | Any up to 10.240 x 10.240 pixels | |
| Frame rates | Any (depending on ASIC / FPGA IP-cores or Developer SDKs configuration) | |
| PROCESSING | Quality | Mathematically lossless / Near-lossless / visually lossless / lossy down to 1 bit per pixel (bpp) |
| Rate control | Constant bitrate (CBR) operation (or capped VBR) , adjustable down to 0,5bpp (~10:1) | |
| Latency | (Sub-) intra-frame: down to 0.1 millisecond | |
| Proxy option | Downscaler in decoder for fast analysis, proxy viewing, and editing |
Evaluation & implementations
TICO-RAW IP-cores
- small footprint / low memory
- low power (no external DDR)
- various encoder & decoder versions
- Xilinx & Intel FPGA (all families)
- ASIC like TSMC 12, 16, 28, 40nm
FastTICO-RAW SDKs
More information on TICO-RAW
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