Product category:
Programmable Logic Devices
News Release from: Altera Europe
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 April 2005
FPGAs put to work in high-speed video
interface
Altera and Gennum are working together to deliver a next-generation video interface for the broadcast industry.
Altera and Gennum are working together to deliver a next-generation video interface for the broadcast industry The flexible, low-cost solution, will feature Altera's Stratix GX FPGAs and Gennum's cable equaliser and driver products, and enable a 3Gbit/s signal over a coax
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The movement in the broadcast industry toward 1080-line progressive video formats is creating demand for a 3Gbit/s serial interface", said Alan Ferguson, Director, Video Transport Products at Gennum.
"Copper is still the lowest cost method of transporting digital video, so the industry will be pleased to learn that 100 metres of coax is possible at 3Gbit/s".
Altera's programmable logic and Gennum's ASSPs offer digital broadcast equipment manufacturers a flexible, cost-effective path to a successful system design.
The Altera Stratix GX FPGA's serialiser and deserialiser, combined with Gennum's equaliser and cable driver, produce a multirate link that supports Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) protocols 259M-C (270Mbit/s) and 292M (1.485Gbit/s), and twice the SMPTE 292M datarate (2.970Gbit/s).
"Enabling a 3Gbit/s video link over coax is further evidence of Altera's ongoing commitment to provide low-cost solutions for the broadcast industry", said Todd Scott, Senior Director of the Broadcast and Consumer Business Unit at Altera.
"The solution we developed with Gennum allows the design of a fully programmable and flexible multi-rate platform for realtime video applications".
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