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News Release from: Nu Horizons Electronics Corp | Subject: OmniTek AVDP
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 April 2008
Distribution deal signed for video
platform
Omnitek's AVDP system enables video system engineers to prototype and test complex high-speed signal processing algorithms in real time.
Nu Horizons Electronics has signed an agreement with OmniTek to market a new advanced video development platform (AVDP) in Europe, the US and Asia (excluding Japan) The AVDP is based around the Virtex 5 family of 65nm FPGAs from Xilinx and is a PC-based system that enables video system engineers to prototype and test complex high-speed signal processing algorithms in real time
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 Mar 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Applications include de-interlace and resizer algorithm development for flat-panel displays, high-resolution image processing in medical equipment, development of image manipulation systems, Codec prototyping and video capture/playout with local processing and high bandwidth.
Using 65nm FPGA technology, coupled with a high-speed 4x PCI Express bus interface and a plug-in video I/O module, the compact board provides up to 1Gbyte/s transfer rate and 12 bidirectional serial data ports for video interfacing, each of which can operate at up to 3.2Gbit/s.
The platform accepts any Virtex-5 device in a 1136-FFG package, including the Xilinx LX50T, LX110T, SX50T and SX95T.
The AVDP has 1Gbyte of DDR-2 SDRAM clocked at 266MHz and 144Mbit QDR-II SRAM clocked at 250MHz.
The AVDP comes complete with a software development kit, including source code in C++, which can be compiled using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and FPGA Source Code for 2D resizing, motion adaptive de-interlacing, video I/O and PCIe DMA.
A fully documented application programming interface (API) is also supplied, to enable easy control of the card and a sample graphical user interface (GUI) application allows fast access to hardware features.
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