Wireless Transmission of HDMI signals

Abstract

A growing trend of physical separation of digital content and human interfaces is driving the demand for wireless solutions for streaming high bit rate data from one unit to another. This gives the end user freedom of placing equipment wherever wanted without any thought of problems with cables. The goal is to serialize and later deserialize HDMI signals to enable it to be sent over a radio link. A Xilinx Spartan-6 LTX is used as a hardware platform. To limit the scope of the project it was decided that communication would only go one way. This prevents the negotiation between the HDMI source and monitor from taking place. The negotiation has to be implemented on the hardware platform. A system design for serialization and sending of the serialized HDMI data was successfully created. Most of the different parts of the system have been verified to work individually, but not together. A fully working prototype is not far away.