The Altera Warp FPGA IP core, part of the Video and Vision Processing (VVP) Suite, offers a highly optimized hardware solution for performing geometric corrections and arbitrary non-linear transformations on real-time video streams. This IP core enables advanced image warping capabilities, making it ideal for applications such as lens distortion correction, perspective transformation, panoramic stitching, and projection mapping. By leveraging FPGA acceleration, the Warp IP delivers low-latency, high-throughput performance suitable for demanding environments like broadcast production, automotive vision systems, industrial inspection, and immersive display technologies. Its flexible architecture allows developers to implement custom transformation maps and integrate seamlessly into complex video processing pipelines.
Altera
Key Features
- Arbitrary warp transforms and rotations
- Highly-optimized external memory interface
- High quality per-pixel bi-cubic interpolation
- Coefficient sets available for the highest filter quality
- Full data buffering to allow input and output to operate on independent clock domains
- Support for 10-bit per color component
- Support up to 2 pixels in parallel per clock processing
- Support resolutions up to 3840 × 2160 at 60 fps and future support for up to 8K at 60 fps
- Low FPGA resource utilization
- AXI4-Stream video I/O interface
- AXI4-Stream ↔ Avalon® stream interface protocol converters
- Avalon® memory-mapped CPU control and memory interfaces
Offering Brief
Offering Brief
| Device Family | Agilex® 3 FPGAs and SoC FPGAs C-Series, Agilex® 5 FPGAs and SoC FPGAs D-Series, Agilex® 5 FPGAs and SoC FPGAs E-Series, Agilex® 7 FPGAs and SoC FPGAs F-Series, Agilex® 7 FPGAs and SoC FPGAs I-Series, Agilex® 7 FPGAs and SoC FPGAs M-Series, Arria® 10 GT FPGA, Arria® 10 GX FPGA, Arria® 10 SX SoC FPGA, Cyclone® 10 GX FPGA, Cyclone® 10 LP FPGA, Stratix® 10 AX SoC FPGA, Stratix® 10 DX FPGA, Stratix® 10 GX FPGA, Stratix® 10 SX SoC FPGA, Stratix® 10 TX FPGA |
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| Offering Status | Production |
| Integrated Testbench | Yes |
| Evaluation License | Yes |
| Design Examples Available | Yes |
| Demo | No |
| Compliance | No |
| Development Language | Encrypted Verilog, Encrypted VHDL |
Encrypted Verilog source code
Design Example
Simulation Models
IP Evaluation Mode
Documentation: IP User Guide, IP Release Notes
Ordering Information
IP- OM-WARP
from Mouser
IP- OM-WARP
from Digikey
