Numato Opsis is an Open Source Hardware FPGA Board with 6 Video Inputs and Outputs (Crowdfunding)

Numato Lab is a Bangalore based company specializing in MCU and FPGA boards such as the low cost Mimas V2 Spartan 6 board, and their latest board is also based on a Spartan 6 FPGA, but a more powerful part with LX45T FPGA, and targets video applications with two HDMI inputs, two HDMI outputs, one DisplayPort output, and one DisplayPort input, among other interfaces.

Numato_Opsis

Instead of simply listing specifications of Numato Opsis, I’ll reproduce a table – drawn by Numato – showing Opsis features and specifications against some other FPGA video platforms.

&lttd>
No
Opsis miniSpartan6+ Mixxeo Atlys Nexys Anvyl CVK 2.0 AVDB
Make Numato ScarabHardware MLabs Digilent Digilent Digilent TED OmniTek
License
Open
Open
Open
Closed
Closed
Closed
Closed
Closed
Cost USD $349 USD $105 no stock USD $419 USD $499 USD $539 USD $2,995 USD $999
FPGA
Fab Xilinx Xilinx Xilinx Xilinx Xilinx Xilinx Xilinx Altera
Family Spartan6 Spartan6 Spartan6 Spartan6 Artix7 Spartan6 Spartan6 Cyclone V
Part LX45T LX25 LX45 LX45 XC7A200T LX45 LX150T GT
Memory
Type DDR31600 166MHz SDRAM DDR1400 DDR2800 DDR31600 DDR2800 DDR31600 DDR31600
Size 256MB 32MB 2 x 64MB 128MB 256MB 128MB 128MB 2 x 128MB
HDMI
Inputs 2 1 4 2 1 1 1 1
Outputs 2 1 4 2 [1] 1 1 1 1
CEC Support
All Ports
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Hotplug Ctrl
All Ports
No
All Inputs
No
No
No
No
No
VGA Out
Expansion
0
1
Expansion
Expansion
0
Expansion
0
DisplayPort
Inputs
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
Outputs
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
Dual mode [2]
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
?
Yes
USB 2.0
Device
FX2 [4] and UTMI OTG
No
No
FX2[3]
No
FX2[3]
No
No
Host
UTMI OTG
No
HID only
HID only
HID only
No
No
JTAG
Yes [4]
Yes
Yes
Yes [3]
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
UART
Yes [4]
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ethernet
Speed
Gigabit
None
100Mbit
Gigabit
Gigabit
100Mbit
Expansion
Gigabit
Unique MAC
Yes
N/A
No
No
Yes
No
N/A
Yes
microSD
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
Config Storage 16 Mbyte SPI 8 Mbyte SPI 32 Mbyte PROM 16 Mbyte SPI 32 Mbyte SPI 16 Mbyte SPI 16 Mbyte SPI 2 x 32 Mbyte SPI
Audio
Expansion
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Expansion
Yes
High-Speed Expansion
TOFE
No
No
VHDCI
FMC LPC
No
3 x FMC LPC, 1 x FMC HPC
No
PMOD Connectors
Expansion
0
0
1 [1]
5
7
0
0

The mini-ITX board has been designed using KiCad open source software tool, and hardware design files can be found on github. The default firmware, also free and open source, is called HDMI2USB.tv and allows users to record video from HDMI or DisplayPort inputs to a computer (the board emulates a UVC webcam), while simultaneously outputting the input to multiple video outputs, which can be very useful for conferences. A more advanced scenario would be to have two video inputs with one HDMI camera capturing the speaker, with the other HDMI input connected to his laptop to show the presentation slides, and the system would switch between the two inputs as needed, while broadcasting the video to various outputs.

Beside being used as a video platform, the board can also be used for various other tasks as a Xilinx FPGA development board with high-speed transceivers, expansion I/Os and more.

The project has launched on Crowdsupply platform, where the company aims to raise a mere $8,725. Numato Opsis board requires a $349 pledge with free shipping to the US, and $15 to the rest of the world. Delivery is scheduled for December 2015.

Share this:

Support CNX Software! Donate via cryptocurrencies, become a Patron on Patreon, or purchase goods on Amazon or Aliexpress

ROCK 5 ITX RK3588 mini-ITX motherboard
Subscribe
Notify of
guest
The comment form collects your name, email and content to allow us keep track of the comments placed on the website. Please read and accept our website Terms and Privacy Policy to post a comment.
6 Comments
oldest
newest
zoobab
9 years ago

This Numato board has a lot in common with Milymist, who was developed by a friend of Mine, lekernel:

http://lekernel.net/blog/

Patrickz
Patrickz
9 years ago

:/ any board with 1xSDI input, 2xSDI output?

Tim 'mithro' Ansell
9 years ago

@zoobab

We definitely hope that people who were interested in the Milkymist are also interested in our Opsis platform. We actually use the misoc/migen gateware that was developed as part of the Milkymist V2 (the Mixxeo) in our HDMI2USB project.

fg
fg
9 years ago

USB 2.0 seems to be too slow for multi-stream capturing.

Khadas VIM4 SBC