Vendor: BLUEDOT Category: Video Processing

Video Quality Metric Accelerator IP

Purpose-built silicon IP to accelerate compute-intensive video quality measurement such as VMAF

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Overview

With real‑time performance and computational efficiency, our portfolio of proprietary, algorithm‑driven IP delivers the highest‑quality video while minimizing data usage. From data centers to consumer endpoints, our IP solutions play a critical role in supporting seamless video experiences with exceptional clarity and efficiency.

Pulsar is a portfolio of fixed hardware IPs engineered for  encoding optimization, featuring advanced video standard encoders and perceptual video quality metric accelerators. Together, Pulsar solutions empower next-generation video delivery by maximizing compression efficiency while ensuring exceptional visual fidelity across platforms and devices.

Performance

  • 3840 x 2160 240fps @640MHz, subdivided into 4ch x 4K 60fps
  • Supported resolution 4096 x 4096 (customizable)

Input / Output Format

  • YUV400/420/422/4448-/10-bit depth supported

Interfaces

  • AMBA AXI4 64-bit address and 256-bit data buses for external memory
  • AMBA APB 32-bit address and 32-bit data buses for configuration with host processor

Key features

  • Efficiently accelerates compute-intensive VMAF calculations
  • Simultaneously, IP computes VMAF for 4ch x 4K 60fps
  • All-in-one IP for accelerating visual quality metrics, including VMAF, VMAF-NEG, PSNR, and SSIM
  • All key metrics - VMAF, VMAF-NEG, PSNR, and SSIM - computed together in one efficient pass
  • Built-in on-the-fly scaler for the distorted(encoded) video

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Applications

  • Video Streaming
  • Transcoding

Specifications

Identity

Part Number
Pulsar-VQM
Vendor
BLUEDOT
Type
Silicon IP

Videos

Pulsar-VMAF Hardware Accelerator IP for VMAF measuring
IP evaluation is available at https://github.com/bluedot-io/Pulsar-VMAF

Files

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Provider

BLUEDOT
HQ: Korea
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Learn more about Video Processing IP core

Picking the right MPSoC-based video architecture: Part 1

A look at the design of multiprocessor systems-on-chips (MPSoCs) for video applications and how to optimize them for computational power and real-time performance as well as flexibility. Part 1: Architectural approaches to video processing

Analysis: ARC's Configurable Video Subsystems

Adding to its growing portfolio of licensable silicon IP subsystems, ARC has announced five configurable video processing subsystems. The subsystems range from the smallest-size AV 402V to the highest-performance AV 417V, and support multi-standard video encoding and decoding at resolutions ranging from CIF to D1.

Frequently asked questions about Video Processing IP

What is Video Quality Metric Accelerator IP?

Video Quality Metric Accelerator IP is a Video Processing IP core from BLUEDOT listed on Semi IP Hub.

How should engineers evaluate this Video Processing?

Engineers should review the overview, key features, supported foundries and nodes, maturity, deliverables, and provider information before shortlisting this Video Processing IP.

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