Overview

Cloud computing enables access to content –

often robust, rich multimedia content like

movies, games, slide presentations and mu-

sic, but also straightforward data such as

business reports or files – where it’s wanted

and when it’s wanted. Obtaining this content

from the cloud is not difficult, but viewing it

personally or sharing it with others may be

difficult primarily due to the size of the screen

on the device that accessed this content.

Crowding a group of five or six friends

around a tablet or smartphone to watch a

movie streaming from the cloud is not an

engaging user experience. Sharing a slide

presentation on a tablet PC with a group of

business people in a conference room is not

effective communication.

All too frequently, the device where content

from the cloud ends up is not the most ap-

propriate type of device for viewing, sharing

and experiencing it. Many of the devices that

frequently obtain content from the cloud are

mobile devices, such as tablet PCs, smart-

phones, very thin laptops and others. These

devices place a premium on mobility and, as

a result, they may have small displays and

few if any hardwired connectors that could

link to another type of device where users

could experience the content to its fullest.

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An effective way around this dilemma is a new technology known as remote mirroring

and media display (RMD) technology or remote display technology. Texas Instruments

Incorporated (TI) has drawn on its vast experience in multimedia processing, dis-

play technologies, wireless connectivity and others to develop video proces-

sors that offer a unique blend of capabilities and are supported by reference de-

signs targeted at remote display applications covering a wide range of use cases.

Different clouds, different needsIllustrations of cloud computing always feature a fluffy yet amorphous entity in the center labeled

“The Cloud.” This is somewhat misleading, because cloud computing is actually made up of

several different layers of clouds. In fact, most people interact with at least three different cloud

layers over the course of a normal day (Figure 1).

Raj Pawate,Distinguished Member, Technical Staff

Gaurav Agarwal,Manager, Wi-Fi Display End Equipment

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W H I T E P A P E R

Home

cloud

Work

cloud Infotainment

cloud

Figure 1. The three clouds: Three screens, anytime, anywhere

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The cloud underlying all other layers is called the “infotainment cloud.” This is typically what is thought of

as the Internet. Public websites that can be accessed by anyone like YouTube, Facebook, Netflix, various news

outlets and many others comprise this layer. Much of the content in the infotainment cloud is either free or it can

be accessed for a small fee.

The next layer of cloud computing can be described as the “work cloud.” This is a private, limited-access

cloud that is typically found in a place of employment, although the work cloud for global enterprise can span

most of the continents. The people served by a work cloud are usually limited to the employees of a company or

members of an organization. Much of the information on work clouds is sensitive or confidential. Access is re-

stricted and the organization or company will employ extensive security measures to protect the content against

hacking, tampering and theft.

The third layer of cloud computing, the “home cloud,” is where content for a family, a small group of people

or even one person is stored and subsequently accessed, shared and experienced. A wide variety of end user

devices can be connected to the home cloud, including desktop personal computers, smartphones, tablet PCs,

TVs and audio/video entertainment systems. Like work clouds, but probably not as stringent, home clouds will

usually have some type of security for protecting the content and devices from intruders, viruses and all sorts of

malware.

An important aspect of cloud computing in general is the user’s ability to easily access each individual cloud

layer and seamlessly move back and forth from one to the others. The flexibility and agility inherent in remote

display technology allows it to serve all of the many use cases that are encountered on all layers of cloud

computing.

For example, one aspect of the general-use case for home clouds would involve storing movies, photographs

and music on a robust desktop. Remote display technology then gives users on a home cloud the ability to ex-

perience this content on the other devices on this cloud, such as a large TV, audio/video entertainment system,

tablets or smartphones. A movie might best be shared with several people by mirroring it on a large-screen

high-definition (HD) LCD display as it is streaming from the infotainment cloud to a laptop, tablet or smartphone.

Music may also be mirrored from an MP3 player on the home cloud to an audio/video entertainment system on

the same home cloud, as shown by Figure 2 on the following page. The permutations are endless.

Remote display technology is often deployed quite differently on work clouds in medical facilities, retail stores,

insurance companies, financial institutions and other places of employment. For example, a regional or national

chain of retail stores might implement work clouds in each of its stores. One of the applications running on

these work clouds may be remote display technology to implement a network of large-screen LCD displays for

in-store advertising. The store’s central server would be able to remotely display advertising videos or still image

ads on the displays located throughout the store. Another typical-use case for remote display technology in

office settings or schools is a network projector wirelessly mirroring presentation slides or other materials from a

tablet or laptop PC to a large screen in a conference room or classroom.

Enabling each cloud individually

Show your photos Play your songs Share your desktop

Remote mirroring and

media display (RMD)

View a movie together

Figure 2. Media streaming on the home cloud

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A somewhat specialized-use case for remote display technology in the business world is the deployment of

multiple thin client terminals, each configured with a display screen, keyboard and mouse. The thin clients (or

zero clients) can be linked to a central server where applications are processed and data stored. For the orga-

nization’s IT department, a network of thin clients reduces procurement and maintenance costs, ensures data

security and privacy, and simplifies asset management.

Descriptions of remote display technology usually use the words “source,” “transmitter” or “sender” for the

devices where content originates and “sink” or “receiver” to designate devices where content is displayed

or played. Source devices might include desktop PCs, laptops, smartphones and tablets, while sink devices

could be large-screen TVs, home audio entertainment systems, display monitors and tablets.

A generalized remote display processing stack is shown in Figure 3. The video, graphics and audio being

displayed or played on the source device are first encoded and then, optionally, encrypted. Video and audio

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Remote display processing

Sink

VideoDecode

AudioDecode

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WiFi™ / LAN / WAN

De-Packetize

WiFi™ / LAN / WAN

Figure 3. The remote display processing stack

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are multiplexed together and packetized for transport over a wired or wireless link to the sink device. Here,

the opposite of these processes take place and the content is mirrored on the sink device.

The remote display processing stack presents a number of challenges. For instance, the real-time coding

and decoding algorithms are complex, requiring significant processing power. At the same time, retrofit-

ting a large-screen LCD display for remote display will likely require a small, unobtrusive device that can

be plugged into the display’s HDMI port. Ideally, such a device would be about the size of a thumb drive or

dongle. Consequently, significant processing power would have to be packed into a very compact enclosure.

Certain video and audio compression standards such as the H.264 coder/decoder (codec) have helped in

this regard, but H.264 is only one of several codec standards that are in widespread use. In addition, several

proprietary codecs are prevalent in systems from certain vendors. Moreover, H.264 was intended primarily

as a video processing codec. It may not function as well with other media types, such as text and graphics.

However, H.264 is pervasive and it is particularly critical because it enables high-definition video at low bit

rates.

Power consumption is another important design consideration in some applications of remote display

technology. For instance, a group of thin clients connected to a central server might be powered by power-

over-Ethernet (PoE). The thin clients would need to consume very low power as a result. In another use

case, the sink device might be powered by a low-power Universal Serial Bus (USB) source or a limited power

supply like a battery.

Remote display implementations will also involve other critical considerations stemming from the type of

application and the nature of the content being displayed. For some applications, high-definition imaging and

high-fidelity audio will be of paramount importance, but other types of applications will be able to meet their

use case requirements with less precision.

Content can be classified in four major types or categories: (1) textual and graphical documents such as

Microsoft Word and PowerPoint as well as Adobe PDF (portable document format) files; (2) media such as

video and audio files; (3) games; and (4) web content. As previously mentioned, several codecs are avail-

able for compressing (encoding) and decompressing (decoding) content. Some codecs trade off fidelity or

high-definition for compression efficiency. These are called “lossy” codecs because a portion of the original

content is lost when it is compressed. For example, a lossy codec like H.264 might introduce artifacts into

documents.

Other codecs are referred to as “loss-less.” These codecs retain more of the resolution or precision

of the original media by applying higher order statistics to the content so that less data is lost when it is

compressed and decompressed. The downside to a loss-less codec is its compression efficiency. It may not

compress the content to the extent that a lossy codec will. Each kind of codec offers its own benefits. The

codec implemented in a particular application will depend on the requirements of the use case and the type

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of content being displayed. Some applications will require high-definition video and graphics while others will

be more concerned with the amount of bandwidth needed to move or store the content. If bandwidth and

storage space are concerns in a certain application, a lossy compression algorithm that compresses data

more effectively could be more appropriate than a loss-less algorithm, which retains more of the original data

but does not compress the data as compactly.

Several different standard bodies and consortia have addressed the industry’s need for effective codecs. A

few of the more prominent examples are the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), the Wi-Fi™ Alliance and

the Wireless Gigabit Alliance.

The DLNA was founded primarily to enable streaming video and audio. As a result, the group’s standards

do not perform well on web pages. The organization now supports a large number of codecs, although

interoperability among devices supporting the DLNA standards continues to be a challenge. In contrast to

DLNA, the Wi-Fi Alliance’s Wi-Fi Miracast™ standard is much simpler. Its developers hope that this simplic-

ity will overcome many interoperability issues. It is well suited for displaying web pages. In most cases, the

Web page seen on the screen of the source device is accurately rendered on the display of the sink device.

Ultimately, some or all of these codecs will likely be involved in remote display applications. The right codec

will be determined by the requirements of each use case.

Another challenge facing remote display applications will be the simplicity of any wireless communications

connection. Several wireless technologies, including Near Field Communications (NFC), Wi-Fi or one of its

new variants such as Wi-Fi Direct, are candidates to be implemented at the transport/physical layer in the

remote display processing stack. The key will be how easily and seamlessly wireless connectivity can be es-

tablished. A link that is time-consuming or technically challenging to set up will be perceived as an obstacle

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Chore

Documents

Media

Games

Web browsing

Core (DLNA) Core (WFD)

Crisp, even whenyou zoom in

ArtifactsFuzzy fonts

30 fps, low Wi-Fi™ bandwidthmulti-format, longer battery life

Low battery lifeVariable fps

Screen mirroringScreen mirroring

Reduced quality forembedded video

Low latencyHigh latency

Figure 4: The right core for the right chore

Keeping it simple

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for many consumers. Technologies like NFC simplify transport layer communications, enabling two devices to

exchange information with very little human intervention. Establishing a wireless link with NFC can be as easy

as tapping the source device to the sink device.

The adoption of new applications always depends on user demand and enabling technologies. For remote

display technology, both of these factors are emerging at the same time. The final pieces needed for end-

user products will be solutions from companies like TI. Now, TI is applying its powerful system-on-chip (SoC)

processors, including the DaVinci™ DM36x and DM81x video processors, in remote display solutions.

These embedded processors pack the processing power of a complete desktop computer, but can run on a

battery and are available at a cost level that consumers can easily afford.

TI is helping manufacturers develop implementations of remote display technology by providing several

reference design kits (RDKs). The following sections of this white paper offer details on some of TI’s RDKs,

specifically the RDKs that concern remote media display applications of remote display technology for the

infotainment, work and home clouds, and an RDK that addresses thin client applications for the work cloud.

Content sharing via remote display technology can span all three clouds. For the home cloud, remote media

display will involve the sharing of consumer-oriented multimedia, such as movies, photos, music and more.

On the infotainment cloud, multimedia can be streamed from the public Internet and displayed remotely in

order to share the content with others. And lastly, content can be shared on the work cloud in applications

involving networked presentation projectors, digital signage in retail stores and other similar implementations.

TI has designed several RDKs with various options in order to meet the requirements of this broad range of

remote media display applications.

TI’s RDKs for remote media display have incorporated optimized Wi-Fi Miracast™ and DLNA interfaces

specifically for streaming media over either wireless and wired connections. Many of the remote media

display applications involving content on the work cloud may have wired LAN connectivity while consumer

remote media display in the home will likely be dominated by wireless links.

Based on either TI’s DaVinci DM36x or DM81x video processors, TI’s Remote Media Display RDK offers

manufacturers an accelerated path to the marketplace with remote display capabilities, supporting up to

1080p60 screen resolution. Each reference design is fully tested and optimized for production readiness. The

high-level integration of TI’s video processors deliver an extremely low bill of materials cost, thus ensuring

competitive end products in the market. See Figure 5 on the following page for a generalized hardware block

diagram of TI’s DaVinci DM36x-based Remote Media Display RDK and Figure 6 for a block diagram of TI’s

DaVinci DM813x-based Remote Media Display RDK.

TI’s Remote Media Display RDKs support a number of options that make them unique in the industry.

For example, these RDKs feature an NFC interface that is particularly effective when paired with mobile

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Remote media display

Coming together

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smartphones and PC tablets. Moreover, a sensor interface to a five megapixel camera has been integrated as

well, simplifying and accelerating the implementation of all sorts of imaging applications. Another advanced

feature is the integration of two alternatives for Wi-Fi support. The design includes on its printed circuit board

802.11 b/g/n capabilities, and it also supports Wi-Fi via a USB dongle.

Figure 7 on the following page shows the comprehensive software architecture supporting TI’s Remote

Media Display RDK’s hardware with a wide range of ready-to-implement software modules to ensure a fast

time to market. See Table 1 for some of the software components supported. In addition, all third-party soft-

ware supporting the Remote Media Display RDK can be licensed directly from TI, eliminating the possibility

of time-consuming delays that often result when the development team must procure software licenses from

multiple third-party suppliers. The software architecture also includes a number of tools and an application

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programming interface (API) that will speed up the development of differentiating capabilities and engaging

user interfaces so that the final product stands out in the marketplace.

Table 1: Remote Media Display RDK software features

Applications (use cases) HD formats Video codecs Audio (stereo) formats

• Consumer media streaming • Networked projectors • Digital signage

1080p301080p60

H.264 BP/MP/HP, MPEG-4 SP, H.263, MPEG-4 ASP,

WMV, VC-1

AAC LC/HE, MP3, WMA, AMR, WAV

Enterprise information technology (IT) departments must contend with a myriad of challenges stemming from

the abundance of personal computers in work clouds today. Nonetheless, no single issue can threaten the

viability of an organization the way that data security can. The difficulty maintaining the security of strategic

corporate information as well as confidential personal information on employees, clients and customers is

compounded when this data is downloaded from the work cloud to individual PCs, especially when corporate

PCs also have access to the learn cloud or public Internet.

Remote display technology can address these and other enterprise IT issues such as software mainte-

nance, version control, asset management and others by an application involving networks of thin clients.

Based on the client/server architecture, a thin client application will feature a server connected by wired

or wireless networking technology to a group of displays, each with user input devices like a keyboard and

a mouse. The displays function as clients to the server. That is, applications, data and all processing takes

place in the server and is displayed via remote display technology on the thin clients. When a thin client

accesses the server by requesting data or application processing, the server responds by encoding the re-

quested data and transports the data stream to the thin client where it is decoded and displayed for the user.

Figure 8 on the following page shows a diagram of a thin client network.

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End product application

Basic user interface, network interface

RMD API

xDM / VISA / OS APIs

TI DaVinci™ DM36x video processor

Linux™ BSP xDM codecs

GStreamer audio-video player

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server, controller

Figure 7: Remote Media Display RDK software block diagram

Thin clients

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Because all processing takes place in the server and data never leaves the server, a thin client application

is inherently more secure than a network of PCs, each with its own local data storage. A work cloud made up

of sub-networks of thin clients minimizes the cloud’s points of vulnerability when compared to a work cloud

comprised entirely of independent PCs.

Because the nature of this thin client remote display use case is quite different from remote media display,

manufacturers will have different hardware and software requirements to ensure a productive and effective

user experience. Bandwidth on the wired or wireless local area network (LAN) connecting the thin clients to

the central server will be a major concern. Too little bandwidth relative to the traffic on the LAN, and the la-

tency of the LAN will climb. Users will perceive the server as unresponsive and their productivity will plummet.

As a result, quantifying the potential traffic load on the LAN will be critical because this will affect the type of

LAN technology deployed.

For example, a thin client LAN in a call center will likely involve low data traffic, while a civil engineering

company that’s generating and collaborating on large image-intense blueprints and planning documents will

generate considerably more traffic. Fortunately, the speed of various wired and wireless LAN technologies

continues to increase. With recent improvements to Wi-Fi transfer speeds, wireless LAN (WLAN) speeds may

soon be adequate for many business applications of thin client remote display technology.

Another consideration for the implementers of a thin client application is the quality of the data compres-

sion on the network. As previously mentioned, some codecs are lossy because they compress the data more

effectively, reducing the traffic on the net. Others codecs are loss-less, meaning less of the data will be lost

Client-side

decompression

Server-side

compression

Figure 8: A thin client network

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in the compression process and, as a result, the decompressed data is a closer reproduction of the original

data. The price to pay for this fidelity is bandwidth, since the compression algorithm in a loss-less codec

may not be as effective as a lossy codec. Choosing the type of codec for a particular thin client network

should take into consideration the type of applications running on the network. If the quality of the decoded

data displayed by the thin clients does not require high fidelity to the original data, then lossy codecs can be

deployed and data traffic on the network will be reduced. Conversely, if the data displayed by the thin clients

must have high resolution relative to the original data, then loss-less codecs will be chosen and the traffic on

the network will be greater.

Of course, security on any type of LAN is always an important consideration. A thin client network will

require strong security procedures including secure boot and cryptographic measures applied to the data

transferred over the network. At the same time, these measures must not slow down the flow of data or the

application processing taking place on the thin client network as this would lead to a less than satisfactory

user experience. Consequently, hardware-accelerated security measures, including cryptographic algorithms,

will be critical on most thin client remote display deployments.

Other capabilities, such as support for dual-user monitors and the ability to redirect data to a remote

display without encoding by the server will also be required in certain thin client networks.

TI’s Thin Client RDK features the highly integrated DaVinci DM8148 video processor. By blending the

processing power of both an ARM® general-purpose core and a digital signal processing (DSP) core, the

DM8148 processor provides all of the capabilities needed to support the many different types of thin client

deployments which will inevitably have a variety of requirements. For example, the programmability of the

DSP core allows practically any codec to be deployed. As a result, designers can choose the lossy or loss-less

codec that best meets the needs of a certain thin client application. TI’s Thin Client RDK is unique in the industry

in that it supports all of the major open industry-standard codecs as well as the major proprietary codecs.

The hardware architecture of TI’s Thin Client RDK (see Figure 9 on the following page) comes with a very low

bill of materials (BOM) cost because of the high level of integration in the DaVinci video processor. Key capabili-

ties such as dual-monitor thin clients, data redirection without encoding and hardware-accelerated cryptography

are incorporated into the DM8148 processor, cutting BOM and speeding new remote display products to market

by reducing a manufacturer’s development efforts. A Gigabit Ethernet interface capable of daisy chaining mul-

tiple thin clients together and power-over-Ethernet add to the flexibility of the Thin Client RDK.

Figure 10 illustrates how the Thin Client RDK’s software architecture is supported by the platform’s

hardware. The ARM Cortex™-A8 core supports the Linux™ kernel. Computationally intense processing

tasks such as multimedia codecs, the application’s virtual desktop codecs and cryptographic algorithms are

offloaded to accelerators such as the DSP core and HD video accelerator to retain processing headroom on

the ARM core. A Gigabit Ethernet interface capable of daisy chaining multiple thin clients together and the

low-power device enables clients to be powered-over-Ethernet (POE).

Thin client RDK

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The underlying factors for remote display technology are now converging. The availability of wireless connec-

tivity and Wi-Fi bandwidth continue to rise while costs decline and newer standards, like the Wi-Fi Alliance’s

Wi-Fi Direct and Wi-Fi Display, help create new use cases. Video compression standards like H.264 and

H.265 provide high-quality video compression at high-definition (HD) resolutions and at bit rates sustainable

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on wireless links. Consumer demand for thin, small devices such as smartphones, tablets and ultra-thin lap-

tops has eliminated many of the familiar connectors like VGA and HDMI that were typical of user devices in

the past. This has accelerated the need for alternative wireless connectivity solutions to devices where cloud

content can be shared and appreciated to its fullest, such as the large-screen HD displays that are becoming

so commonplace. The answer to this situation is remote display technology.

TI’s Remote Media Display and Thin Client RDKs accelerate a manufacturer’s time to market with remote

display products that can be implemented today. The range of capabilities integrated in TI’s DaVinci video

processors ensures a flexible remote display platform capable of easy configuration and able to meet the

particular needs of unique use cases.

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