Product category: Design and Development Hardware
News Release from: Altera Europe | Subject: Audio/Video Development Kit, Stratix II GX edition
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 07 September 2006
Kit speeds broadcast equipment design
FPGA-based audio/video development kit supports triple rate SDI, including the new 3Gbit/s SMPTE 424M standard.
Altera Corporation has begun shipping its Audio/Video Development Kit, Stratix II GX edition, the industry's first FPGA-based audio/video development kit designed to support triple rate SDI (serial digital interface), including the new 3Gbit/s SMPTE 424M standard By supporting the 424M standard defined by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), the development kit enables designers to create or design next-generation studio and broadcast applications such as switchers, H.264 encoders, transcoders, and integrated receiver decoders (IRDs) based on the HD (high-definition) 1080p format
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 Dec 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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