Use this electronics calculation for a first-pass component, converter, signal, motor, or sensor estimate when the stated operating conditions and units match the device data.

Active Pixels Per Second (px/s)

Required number input.

Bits Per Pixel (bits/px)

Required number input.

Raw uncompressed video payload bit rate from active pixel rate and bits per pixel; excludes blanking and coding overhead. The tool evaluates the supplied inputs together and returns the named outputs below; it does not infer omitted operating conditions or change the units shown.^[1]

Bits Per Second (bit/s)

The resulting bits per second returned as a number.

• Compact electronics formulas omit some combination of tolerances, temperature drift, bandwidth, loading, parasitics, noise spectrum, nonlinearity, clipping, calibration, layout, and device-specific limits. Typical datasheet values are not guaranteed limits.
• Use finite inputs in the displayed units and preserve more precision than the final presentation requires. Independently verify safety-critical, financial, compliance, or production decisions.

Check the result against the current datasheet and worst-case operating corners, then verify the circuit or measurement with simulation and bench testing where failure matters.

• PCIe Link Bandwidth

  Estimate one-direction PCIe payload bandwidth from transfer rate, lane count, and the selected generation's encoding efficiency; excludes packet overhead.

• Video Frame Rate

  Frame rate from pixel clock, total pixels per line and total lines per frame, including blanking.

• Video Line Frequency

  Horizontal line rate from pixel clock and total pixels per line, including horizontal blanking.