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thunfisch | 2 years ago

Low-latency (e.g. less than 20 lines) Videoswitchers/mixers. There's a huge amount of data (12Gbps for 4K/UHD) per input, with many inputs and outputs, all with extremely tight timing tolerances. If you loosen the latency restrictions you can do a small numbers of inputs on regular PCs (see OBS Studio), but at some point a PC architecture will not scale easily anymore and it is much more efficient to just use FPGAs that will do the required logic in hardware. It's such a small market that for most devices an ASIC is not a option.

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mschuster91|2 years ago

Blackmagic's whole gear line is based on Xilinx FPGAs. Whatever product of them you see, if you tear it down, it will almost always be nothing more than SerDes chips, I/O controllers and FPGAs.