ME10 Gateway Kit
IPMX Gateway Reference Design, built on the Macnica ME10 SoC
An IPMX gateway for HDMI 2.0, built for Pro AV. Start from a working design and reach the market sooner.
Overview
Customers are asking for IPMX by name, and the first wave of products is forming now. Every quarter you spend building the transport layer, JPEG-XS, PTP timing, NMOS control, HDCP, is a quarter a competitor spends shipping, and none of it differentiates your product.
The ME10 Gateway Kit is a working IPMX gateway built on the Macnica ME10 SoC. Board, firmware and enclosure run today as a sender or a receiver. Evaluate on it, develop on it, and carry the design into your own product with Macnica's engineers alongside you.
The kit passed IPMX product certification in August 2026, administered by AIMS with the EBU as certification authority. Certification applies to complete products, not chips, so this is the validation of the IPMX implementation inside the ME10 SoC.
- HDMI 2.0 in or out, configurable as an IPMX sender or receiver
- Up to 4K60p, RGB and YUV 4:4:4 at 8-bit and 10-bit
- JPEG-XS compression from intoPIX, sub-frame latency
- Passed IPMX product certification, EBU Geneva, August 2026
Target Applications
- Presentation and collaboration spaces
- Display and signage endpoints
- Gateways and extenders for Pro AV and broadcast facilities
- Reference design for your own commercial IPMX encoder or decoder
- KVM extension for control rooms and workstations (HID only)
The kit you evaluate is the kit you develop on: UART, microSD and JTAG are on the back panel, and the firmware is Macnica's, so your supported by a team that’s been involved in shaping the IPMX standard since the beginning.. Contact us to arrange an evaluation, or request a quote.
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Feature | Specification |
|---|---|
Product Name | Macnica ME10 Gateway Kit |
Manufacturer | Macnica |
Built on | Macnica ME10 SoC, IPMX transceiver SoC |
Video and audio | |
Video input/output | 1 x HDMI 2.0. Input in encoder mode, output in decoder mode |
Video resolution | Up to 4K60p, common Pro AV resolutions supported |
Video color space | RGB 4:4:4 8-bit / 10-bit; YUV 4:4:4 8-bit / 10-bit; YUV 4:2:2 8-bit |
Codec | JPEG-XS (intoPIX) |
Latency | Sub-frame |
Audio | Unbalanced analog stereo line in and out on 3.5 mm; up to 8 channels embedded in HDMI. 48 kHz sampling, 24-bit |
Network, control and security | |
Transport | IPMX (VSF TR-10), built on SMPTE ST 2110 and AES67, with AMWA NMOS control |
IP network connection | 1 x RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet, media and control on one connection |
Control | NMOS IS-04, IS-05 and IS-11 via RESTful API. IS-11 carries sink metadata, including EDID |
HDCP | HDCP 2.3 with HKEP. Implemented with a third-party HDCP device; full documentation and integration support from Macnica engineering |
USB | 1 x USB 2.0 OTG, USB HID for keyboard and mouse. 1 A bus power; more than one peripheral needs an OTG adapter and an external hub. USB HID validation pending |
Developer interfaces | |
Serial | 2 x UART on 3-pin Phoenix connectors (UART0, UART1), G/T/R |
Storage | microSD, boot and firmware |
Debug | JTAG header and service micro-USB |
Physical | |
Power | PoE+ (IEEE 802.3at) or 12 V DC ±5%, 15 W. Back-panel power switch |
Dimensions | 143 (W) x 174 (D) x 27.3 (H) mm / 5.63 x 6.85 x 1.07 in |
Enclosure | Black, ventilated, with mounting flanges |
Operating temperature | 0 to 45 °C |
* Specifications describe the ME10 Gateway Kit reference design and are subject to change without notice.
Fastest Time to Market
The ME10 Gateway Kit is a finished, working gateway, so the parts of an IPMX product that take longest to get right are already behind you. Build directly on the design as it stands, or treat it as the foundation for a product that does something the kit does not.
- Working hardware from day one: Board, firmware and enclosure run today, configurable as a sender or a receiver, so evaluation starts on the real signal path rather than on a simulation or a datasheet.
- Develop on the unit you evaluate: Rear-panel UART, microSD and JTAG mean the same box carries you from first power-up through bring-up and debugging.
- Macnica engineering alongside you: Our team assists as you adapt the design to your enclosure and I/O, integrate your control and branding, and carry it through to production.
- A path to volume: Macnica partner ODMs are available for volume manufacture when the design is yours.
Built for Pro AV
IPMX exists because Pro AV needed the interoperability of ST 2110 without the assumptions broadcast makes about the environment, the budget and the operator. The kit delivers what a Pro AV endpoint has to carry, from a single 15 W box that PoE+ can power behind a display or above a ceiling tile.
- Full 4:4:4 chroma to 4K60p: RGB and YUV 4:4:4 at 8-bit and 10-bit, so a laptop desktop, a CAD window, broadcast video or a slide of small type is not thinned out before it reaches the network.
- JPEG-XS from intoPIX: Preserves the image across the network and holds latency under a frame, which is what makes a networked source usable for live presentation and KVM.
- Protected content, end to end: HDCP 2.3 with HKEP passes protected sources across the network, and NMOS IS-11 carries the display's EDID back to the source.
- Audio for the room system: Up to eight channels ride embedded in the HDMI stream, with analog line in and out for the amplifier or DSP.
- One cable: Media, control and PoE+ power share one Gigabit Ethernet connection, so an endpoint needs one connection and no outlet.
IPMX from the Start
Macnica has been part of the IPMX standards community since the start, and the ME10 SoC was designed against the specifications from the silicon up. Your product interoperates with everything built to the same documents, and tracks the standard as it evolves.
- Certified in the open: The ME10 Gateway Kit passed IPMX product certification at the EBU-hosted test event in Geneva, August 2026, in a program administered by AIMS with the EBU as the independent certification authority.
- The SoC behind the kit: Certification attaches to complete products, so the kit's result is the validation of the IPMX implementation inside the ME10 SoC. A product you design the SoC into starts from that same implementation.
- Discoverable on the network: NMOS IS-04 and IS-05 let a control system find the endpoint and route it, and IS-11 carries the sink's metadata, so the kit behaves as a standard IPMX device from the first connection.
- Standards that keep moving: The transport and control planes run in Macnica firmware, so the kit tracks the IPMX specifications as they evolve.
Example applications
Application | Setting | What the kit does |
|---|---|---|
Presentation and collaboration spaces | Corporate AV | Sends and receives HDMI over the room's existing network, discovered and routed by the room control system over NMOS. |
Display and signage endpoints | Retail, venue, transport | A receiver-configured kit drives a display from a shared IPMX network, discovered and routed over NMOS IS-04 and IS-05. |
Product platform | AV manufacturers | The kit becomes the starting point for your own commercial encoder or decoder, with the partner ODM program available for volume manufacture. |
KVM extension (HID only) | Control rooms and workstations | Sub-frame latency keeps the operator experience interactive across a network path instead of a point-to-point cable. |