Optical Communication Technology, Volume. 49, Issue 4, 46(2025)
Design of high-speed dual-channel parallel 16b/18b encoder for HDMI2.1 protocol
To meet the high-speed data transmission requirements of the high-definition multimedia interface(HDMI)2.1 protocol and address the latency issues caused by running disparity(RD)dependency in traditional 16b/18b encoders, a high-speed dual-channel parallel 16b/18b encoder design is proposed. By introducing a fast RD generation module and a dual-channel parallel r edundant architecture, the encoding process is optimized, enabling true parallel encoding. Experimental validation is conducted on the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+MPSoC field-programmable gate array(FPGA)platform. The results demonstrate that at a 400 MHz clock frequency, the encoder achieves a data transmission rate of 14.4 Gb/s with low resource utilization(Block RAM usage of 62.5%)and a power consumption of only 2.636 W. This design significantly reduces encoding latency while maintaining stable linear delay characteristics.
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LI Xiaopeng, XIONG Taiping, CUI Gengshen, WU Mingjun, ZENG Bicheng. Design of high-speed dual-channel parallel 16b/18b encoder for HDMI2.1 protocol[J]. Optical Communication Technology, 2025, 49(4): 46
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Received: Nov. 17, 2024
Accepted: Sep. 15, 2025
Published Online: Sep. 15, 2025
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