Product category: Programmable Logic Devices
News Release from: Altera Europe | Subject: Cyclone III FPGAs
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 24 March 2008
FPGAs are ideal for video processing
Kit supports multiple video I/O formats, allowing video application developers to quickly develop, debug, and prototype designs using their lab video signals and displays.
Altera and Bitec have compiled a video development kit that enables designers to rapidly develop and prototype high-performance, cost-sensitive video applications At the heart of the kit are Altera's Cyclone III FPGAs, which are an ideal video processing platform given the device's large parallel processing capabilities with up to 288 multipliers, 4Mbit embedded memory blocks and low power consumption
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 Jul 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The kit supports multiple video I/O formats, allowing video application developers to quickly develop, debug, and prototype designs using their lab video signals and displays.
"The Cyclone III FPGA architecture, with its abundance of logic, multiplier, and embedded memory resources, delivers high-performance video processing capabilities cost-effectively", says Dr Andy Robertson, CEO of Bitec.
"We have designed this video development kit jointly with Altera to appeal to customers developing applications in video surveillance, video conferencing, industrial imaging, and other video applications".
The video development kit features a Cyclone III development board with two High-Speed Mezzanine Connector (HSMC)-based video interface daughtercards developed by Bitec.
The kit supports composite, S-Video, DVI and RGB video and contains: the Cyclone III EP3C120F780 development board; a quad-video HSMC daughtercard (eight composite or four S-Video inputs); a DVI HSMC daughtercard and DVI cable; Quartus II Web Edition software; access to Altera OpenCore Plus evaluation intellectual property (IP) megafunctions including the Video and Image Processing (VIP) Suite; and a CD-ROM with a video mosaic reference design developed by Bitec.
"This development kit showcases the video-processing capabilities of the industry's only 65nm low-cost and low-power FPGAs", says Luanne Schirrmeister, Director, Low-Cost Products, Altera Corp.
"Working closely with our partner Bitec allowed us to bring to market a versatile video processing platform that enables engineers to quickly develop and prototype a broad range of video applications".
The Cyclone III FPGA-based video development kit is currently available exclusively through Bitec.
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