Abstract: SOPC is an important application of programmable device in the embedded system. Based on SOPC, a general network video platform was introduced, which can receive images from the Ethernet, and process them, then transfer them to terminal equipment for display via digital video interface. In this paper, creation of hardware and software platform and a method to test this system were described in detail. On this platform,a variety of network video application can be achieved, such as video surveillance, remote video display.

Key words: Ethernet, FPGA, SOPC, I_wIP, Network video transmission