Display Stream Compression offers inter-operable, visually lossless real-time, video compression to satisfy the emerging high bandwidth and high resolution video technologies. Bitec offer a highly optimized implementation of the DSC 1.2a as a stand-alone component and/or an integrated component to the Bitec DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.1 IP Cores.
Display Stream Compression offers inter-operable, visually lossless, real-time video compression to satisfy the emerging high bandwidth and high resolution video technologies. Bitec offers a highly optimized implementation of the DSC 1.2a as a stand-alone component and/or integrated component to the Bitec DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.1 IP Cores.
The DSC encoder or decoder has a rich set of parameterizations to enable an optimal customer implementation. User parameterized number of slices enables targeting of different transport protocols such as MIPI or DisplayPort.
VESA Display Stream Compression (DSC) IP Core
Overview
Key Features
- Supports Versions 1.1, 1.2 and 1.2a
- Supports RGB and YCbCr color spaces
- 1-to-8 slice support
- Optional support for Block Prediction
- Parameterized video geometry
- 4:4:4, 4:2:2 and 4:2:0 color spaces
Block Diagram

Deliverables
- The Bitec DSC IP Core is delivered with testbenches, documentation and example implementations for DisplayPort and HDMI 2.1.
Technical Specifications
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