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TicoRAW is the new RAW !

intoPIX TicoRAW is a revolutionary RAW (Bayer) image processing and compression technology, extremely tiny and low power.


intoPIX has developped various architectures running at different pixel per clock to target a wide range of pixel rates/ frame rates/ image sensors resolutions and a wide range of FPGA devices & ASIC technology nodes. Encoding or Decoding can be achieved into the small AMD-Xilinx & Intel Altera FPGAs, robust for real-time operation with no latency. intoPIX offers silicon-proven IP with very low gate count & SRAM consumption in ASICs.


With such a rapid evolution of available images, image sensors and video resolutions, the need for new ways to handle RAW / image sensor data is bigger than ever before. 


With TicoRAW, you can capture, transmit, store, edit, preserve, analyze,.. RAW Bayer data "more efficiently" with small bandwidth and file sizes, preserving the full flexibility of "RAW".


IP Cores Features

TicoRAW IP-cores are fully available and silicon-proven for FPGA and ASIC designs

 Image / Video 
  •  Color space and pixel formats: 
    • RAW CFA Bayer 
    • HDR Bayer (ie with PWL - piecewise linear) 
    • several patterns supported including : RGGB, RCCB, GBBR, RYYCy,...
    • optional  Monochrome/Grayscale and 4:2:2* modes
  • Bit Depth: 8, 10, 12, 14, 16
  • Resolutions: Any (2Mpx to 160Mpx or more (see example for, HD, 2K, 4K, 8K, 10K hereunder) 
  • Pixel Rate / frame rate*: Any (depending on intoPIX IP core configuration & targeted device)
TicoRAW Processing &  Compression
(Latency, Quality, Rate Control)  
  • (Sub) intra-frame : down to 0.1 millisecond
  • Real-time operation guaranteed (no overflow or underflow) 
  • Fixed latency - Only a few lines of pixels (number of lines depends on the profile)
  • Adjustable compression ratio down to 1 bit per pixel
  • Support for lossy / visually lossless / near-lossless / mathematically. lossless 
  • Constant Bit Rate mode (CBR) or Constant Quality mode (Capped VBR)
  • ISP proxy output within decoder (Decoder IP-core Option) : -1 resolution. The decoder has the option to  output downscaled resolution (width/2; height/2) with ISP including white balance and color space conversion and black level correction
    (i.e. from a 4K encoded RAW codestream, the decoder output directly HD RGB resolution )
FPGA / ASIC Implementation
  • Various Pixel Per Clock architectures available to achieve the minimal footprint and minimal power consumption into the chip.
  •  Low-cost implementation in any FPGAs: very low FPGA logic and internal RAM usage (No external DDR required)
    • Fit in Xilinx (AMD) Spartan-6, Artix-7, Kintex-7, Kintex Ultrascale, Zynq, Virtex Ultrascale, UltrascalePlus, Versal
    • Fit in Intel Altera Cyclone V,  Arria V, Stratix V, Cyclone 10, Arria 10, Stratix 10, Agilex
    • Fit in Lattice 
  • Low Gate Area (low gate count / low memory) for ASIC - Silicon Proven (No external DDR required)
  • Encoder and decoder have approximately the same complexity 
  • IP-core size customizable per application 

* in 422 , the frame rate will be the half of the frame rate achieved in RAW Bayer mode

NEW - HD, 4K, 8K, 10K, 16K, 20K RAW ...
and your configuration for FPGA & ASIC

Based on all the features we are supporting, it is possible to provide custom versions to address your specific needs. 

Contact us for your own configuration. 


See hereunder a list of typical configurations. The Max fps will depend on the selected encoder /decoder and its related pixel-per clock architecture.


IP-CORES
-ENC  / -DEC
 Color
sampling
Sensor
Bit depth
Resolutions examples
Max fps
at 100 MHz*
Max fps
at 250 MHz*
Max fps
 at 300 MHz*
Max fps
at 1 GHz*
 IPX-TicoRAW-2K
(up to 2048-pixels width)
 RAW CFA Bayer or HDR Bayer  8, 10, 12, 14, 16
 2048 x 1080
2048 x 2048
 670
354
  839
442
 1006
530
  3354
1769
 IPX-TicoRAW-4K
(up to 4096-pixels width)
RAW CFA Bayeror HDR Bayer 8, 10, 12, 14, 16
 4096 x 2160
4096 x 4096
 168
88
 209
110
 250
132
 837
441
 IPX-TicoRAW-8K
(up to 8192-pixels width)
RAW CFA Bayer or HDR Bayer
 8, 10, 12, 14, 16
8192 x 4320
8192 x 8192
44
22
105
55
124
68
418
220
...
ASK FOR YOUR CONFIGURATION 

 * Max Frequency (MHz) of the IP-cores can be adjusted according to your selected pixel-per-clock architecture, and your targeted FPGA or ASIC technology node

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TicoRAW Solutions overview
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