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Intellectual Property Cores
News Release from: Altera Europe | Subject: Pro-MPEG and HD.264 cores
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 May 2006
FPGA cores run latest video standards
Intellectual property cores for video applications are compliant with the newest Pro-MPEG and HD.264 standards for video distribution.
New from Altera Corporation at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), two intellectual property (IP) cores for video applications are compliant with the newest Pro-MPEG and HD.264 standards for video distribution Delivered on Altera's FPGAs, the cores enable rapid incorporation of these new design approaches into video distribution, monitoring and security products
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The Video over IP market is expanding rapidly, requiring solutions that offer both cost and time to market benefits, with excellent quality of service", said Janne T Morstol, Chief Operating Officer from T-VIPS.
"Having leveraged Altera's FPGAs to ensure that our video gateway products were first to market, we can attest to the fact that Altera's programmable logic technology is a competitive edge for manufacturers looking to win in this marketplace".
The H.264 HD video encoder is a high-definition (HD) hardware encoder jointly developed with Ateme of Bievres, France, that delivers unprecedented video quality.
It is compliant with the H.264 HD video compression main profile standard and implemented on Stratix II FPGAs.
This results in a 3in square board allowing a dramatic increase in the encoding system's HD channel density.
"Following our successful co-operation in delivering an FPGA-based SD video encoder to multiple customers, we have partnered with Altera to develop and demonstrate a real-time broadcast-quality H.264/AVC HD video encoder", said Dominique Edelin, Chief Technology Officer with Ateme.
"Altera Stratix II FPGAs provide the high DSP performance required for HD video encoding".
To accelerate system development time, Altera teams with key broadcast industry technology experts to provide designers with choices using either Altera solutions or its partners' ready-to-use FPGA-based products.
"These broadcast solutions are examples of our commitment to providing our customers with a competitive edge", said Todd Scott, Senior Director for Altera's Broadcast and Consumer Business Unit.
"Programmable logic-based solutions from Altera and its partners enable equipment manufacturers to rapidly go to market and deliver high-quality broadcast products to their customers".
"Additionally, the nonvolatile design security feature in our Stratix II FPGA protects partner's IP and allows them to address a broad market via component- and board-based products".
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