SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Intel has acquired U.K.-based Omnitek, a provider of video and vision FPGA IP technology.

Omnitek, which was founded in 1998, has developed more than 220 FPGA IP cores and accompanying software. Its technology enables customized high-performance vision and artificial intelligence capabilities on FPGA across a range of markets.

“From data centers to devices, compute-intensive applications like 8K video and artificial intelligence require a multitude of innovative compute engines,” said Roger Fawcett, CEO of Omnitek. “FPGA devices play an increasingly critical role, often complementing other processing architectures, and Intel is at the center of this revolution.”

Omnitek will now fall under Intel’s Programmable Solutions Group.

“Omnitek’s technology is a great complement to our FPGA business,” said Dan McNamara, senior vice president and general manager of the Programmable Solutions Group. “Together, we will deliver leading FPGA solutions for video, vision and AI inferencing applications on Intel FPGAs and speed time-to-market for our existing customers while winning new ones.”

The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

LAS VEGAS— Omnitek will highlight the new audio and networking functionality added to its Ultra TQ broadcast waveform rasterizer at the 2018 NAB Show. Responding to industry demand, this network-connected test and measurement system now supports SDI up to 3G, as well as SMPTE 2110/2022-6 IP connections.

With this upgrade, the Ultra TQ now analyzes and decodes Dolby E and D audio for monitoring and quality checking, de-embeds SDI/2110/2022-6 audio content to AES/EBU audio outputs, and monitors AES/EBU audio on discrete audio connections. It also lets users connect to SDI and IP environments, with more latitude as to how they monitor audio content.

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Omnitek will also display its Ultra XR 4K/UHD Waveform Rasterizer and Ultra 4K Tool Box 4K/UHD Analyzer/Generator/Converter, both running V3.4 software. The V3.4 release adds or improves the Lissajous display, AV delay measurement, propagation delay measurement and new status displays.

Also at the booth, Omnitek’s Design Services will be demonstrating its new OSP (Omnitek Standard Product) silicon chipset solutions for 4K AV over IP and 4K/HD warp, touting them as competitive alternatives to ASIC and ASSP devices.

Omnitek will be in booth C7412.

BASINGSTOKE, ENGLAND—IBC 2017 will serve as an introduction for Omnitek’s new Ultra TQ broadcast waveform rasterizer, per a recent show preview.

Ultra TQ

The video test and measurement provider’s next generation broadcast waveform rasterizer is based on the Ultra 4K Tool Box and Ultra XR technology. With this background, Ultra TQ can perform QC and monitoring of SD-SDI/HD-SDI/3G-SDI signals as standard. It also features the tools expected of a broadcast waveform rasterizer, including picture, waveform, monitor, vectorscope, video status, video timing, audio meters, audio status, loudness, TC logging and basic line pattern generator. Additional options are available to provide a broadcast solution for those working with either SDR or HDR material with PQ, Hybrid Log Gamma or S-Log profiles.

At the IBC conference, the Ultra TQ will be supporting analysis of video over SDI or IP links as a SMPTE 2110/SMPTE 2022-6 enabled waveform rasterizer for broadcast applications.

Additional Omnitek products expected to be shown during the conference include the Ultra XR 4K/UHD waveform rasterizer and the Ultra 4K Tool Box/UHD Analyzer/Generator/Converter, both running v3.3 software. The v3.3 release includes remote waveforms, video pass-through, audio meters with industry scales and ballistics, loudness graph, surround sound audio meters, program loudness meters, O-Zone picture scale, timecode display, clean display mode and many other features and improvements.

Omnike will be located at booth 10.A24 during IBC 2017.

LAS VEGAS—Omnitek’s latest Ultra broadcast waveform rasterizer, the Ultra TQ, is making the trip to the 2017 NAB Show. The Ultra TQ incorporates functionality from the Ultra 4K Tool Box and Ultra XR products to support HDR and wide color gamut production.

The Ultra TQ provides analysis of SD, HD and 3G-SDI formats, with an upgrade path to 4K/UHD. Its analyzer instruments include picture, waveform monitor, vectorscope, gamut meters, audio monitoring, and loudness measurement, video timing, video/audio status monitoring, event logging and closed caption logging.

The picture monitor provides HD display with closed captions overlay, safe area cages and Omnitek’s O-Zone for false color display for HDR/SDR production. The Waveform monitor displays YCbCr or YRGB, full horizontal & vertical zoom of single, multiple or all line displays, analyzing a full frame video or region of interest.

The integrated line test pattern generator, which generates 38 line-patterns, can be upgraded to a full test pattern generator with moving and static zone plates and test sequences, and the Ultra TQ logs physical and functional parameters of the video signal for QC and compliance.

The 2017 NAB Show takes place in Las Vegas, April 24-27. Omnitek will be in boothC7915. For more information, visit www.nabshow.com.

LOS ANGELES-Test & Measurement solutions provider Omnitek is showing the Ultra 4K Tool Box at the SMPTE 2015 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition. The Ultra was upgraded to support single-link 4K over 12G-SDI earlier this year and after successful evaluation has been shipping since June to a range of manufacturers from “glass-to-glass.”

Ultra 4K Tool Box

This 12G-SDI T&M solution features tools for physical layer and data analysis, plus generation and conversion of signals from SD to 4K. It provides a platform for manufacturers, broadcast networks and systems developers to build, test and commission UHD-TV products and infrastructure.

This feature-rich product also introduces jitter spectrum and histogram tools to ascertain source and spread of jitter on an incoming signal. A real-time 12G-SDI Eye diagram featuring automatic rise and fall-time measurement is also available to give a comprehensive physical layer analysis solution that’s tailored to the broadcast industry.