Multichannel Computer Screen Recording System Based on FPGA and ARM

摘要

A multichannel computer screen recording system based on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and Advanced RISC Machines (ARM) is introduced in this paper. This system has both Video Graphics Array (VGA) and Digital Video Interface (DVI) inputs, and supports the resolution of 1920×1080 and any common resolutions that do not exceed 1600×1200. The system can simultaneously record VGA and DVI signal by using the FPGA as the MUX of VGA and DVI. The experimental results showed that the algorithm used in this system, which combined the wavelet transform and listless zerotree entropy coding, achieved significantly higher quality of the decoded images than JPEG with the same compression ratio. The mapping of FPGA to SRAM method ensures the bit stream band width between FPGA and ARM. With the compression ratio of 50, the system can record 20 frames per second at the resolution of 1600×1200.