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8 years ago

Is it possible to use PCIe for image transfer instead of display port?

I'm currently looking at the sample code a10_dp_vip_pro project from the link (https://cloud.altera.com/devstore/platform/1986/). As far as I figured out, this sample code uses on-board display port ...
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8 years ago

In theory you probably could, but could the CPU handle the transfer rate? probably not. 4kp60 video is 12 Gbps

Where were you going to source the video from? Raw video is very large. Even if it was compressed, the CPU would need to de-compress it and then transmit at the above rate - I doubt a CPU could handle it.