Altera FPGA Solution for Holoscan Sensor Bridge (HSB)

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This article introduces the features, benefits of implementation, and evaluation/development environment of Altera FPGA solutions provided for NVIDIA Holoscan Sensor Bridge (HSB).

For an overview of NVIDIA Holoscan and Holoscan Sensor Bridge, please refer to the article below.

Holoscan Sensor Bridge: Supporting the Era of Physical AI

Benefits of using Altera® FPGAs in HSB

Altera® provides the ideal platform for Holoscan Sensor Bridge configurations with its high-speed sensor data processing, low-latency operation, and flexible interface support.

NVIDIA supports Altera® and Trasic, which provides FPGA development boards, as an FPGA partner in the HSB ecosystem.

By using Altera® FPGAs in the HSB, large volumes of data from multiple sensors can be synchronized and preprocessed with low latency, enabling real-time AI processing while reducing the load on the GPU.

1. High-speed sensor data processing

Altera® FPGAs can preprocess large amounts of sensor data in real time. By avoiding the transfer of unnecessary data to the GPU, they contribute to improved overall system efficiency.

2. Low latency and real-time capabilities

Hardware processing using FPGAs enables lower latency and deterministic operation compared to CPU-based software processing.

3. Compatibility with NVIDIA Holoscan

NVIDIA and Altera® provide reference designs for HSB, enabling shorter development cycles and reduced design risks.

4. Flexible sensor interface

Altera® FPGAs support a variety of interfaces, including the following:

・MIPI, LVDS, JESD, Ethernet, SLVS-EC, etc.

One advantage is that future sensor changes can be easily handled by rewriting the FPGA.

5. Reduce GPU load

In an HSB configuration, the following processes can be performed on the FPGA side, allowing the GPU to be focused on AI inference processing and improving the overall system processing efficiency.

Filtering, ROI extraction, format conversion, timestamping, data compression/reduction

6. Future prospects and product roadmap

Altera®'s Agilex ™ FPGA series offers high scalability as an HSB platform for edge AI, medical, and robotics applications.

　・PCIe Gen4

• High-speed Ethernet (10GbE to 400GbE)

Arm-based SoC FPGA

・Long-term supply

HSB development kit

HSB development kits require "expandability to capture various sensor inputs" and "communication performance that supports high-speed Ethernet."

If your development kit is equipped with an FMC connector, you can easily expand the necessary interfaces by connecting an FMC-compatible daughter card.

Stratix 10 Sensor Processing Kit

1. Equipped with Stratix 10 TX FPGA (1ST040EH2F35E2VG)
2. Equipped with two QSFP28 100GbE ports.
- Reduces CPU load when combined with NVIDIA GPUDirect RDMA

3. Connect a daughter card to expand I/O.
• FMC compatible

Atum A5 Development Kit

1. Equipped with Agilex 5 FPGA (A5ED065BB32AE4S)
2. Equipped with one QSFP+ 40GbE port.
- Reduces CPU load when combined with NVIDIA GPUDirect RDMA
3. Standard-equipped with the necessary I/F for HSB.

・MIPI connector ×2

　・PCIe Gen3 x4

　・HDMI

　・2.5GbE Ethernet

4. Connect a daughter card to expand I/O.
• FMC+ compatible

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We provide support from development kit selection and reference design to evaluation environment setup.

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