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News Release from: Altera Europe | Subject: D/AVE
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 February 2007
PCI IP core eases graphics integration
The TES Display Controller/Accelerated Vector Engine (D/AVE) PCI IP core allows systems designers to quickly integrate specific graphics functions.
Altera Corp has announced the immediate availability of an FPGA-based high-quality PCI graphics intellectual property (IP) core for automotive and industrial display applications The TES Display Controller/Accelerated Vector Engine (D/AVE) PCI IP core allows systems designers to quickly integrate specific graphics functions such as high-quality thin film transistor (TFT) pixel rendering into all of Altera's low-cost Cyclone and high-end Stratix series FPGAs
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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D/AVE generates high-quality vector graphics with subpixel processing and extended anti-aliasing functionality.
The IP core connects via the ubiquitous PCI interface and provides an innovative rendering engine as the main component for flexible system integration at the hardware level.
Applications include navigation, dashboard and on-system displays (OSDs) in the automotive, aviation and industrial sectors.
"Our D/AVE graphics core with PCI easily integrates into the architecture of Altera's FPGAs, providing rapid development cycles that offer reprogrammable parameters for a wide range of high-quality automotive and industrial applications", said Nick Walker, senior vice president, sales and marketing at TES.
"Using this PCI interface in these types of applications dramatically shortens device qualification times and reduces availability issues that are prevalent in these markets".
Altera programmable technology is designed into advanced automotive and industrial applications, including driver assistance, infotainment and gateways.
In response to the exponential growth in the complexity of these systems, Altera and TES offer this scalable graphics core with a PCI interface IP delivering a flexible, low-risk design path for reducing complexity and optimising cost-efficiencies.
"Previously designers were forced to use microcontrollers with integrated graphics and dedicated graphics controllers for specific applications".
"This necessitated separate system designs and development delays were incurred using semi- or full-custom silicon", said Michael Samuelian, Director of Altera's Industrial Business Unit.
"Unlike fixed logic implementations, the Altera/TES solution enables designers to dramatically reduce their overall development time, while improving system performance and lowering cost".
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