Harris Corporation has selected Altera’s Stratix II GX-based development kit and 3-Gbps serial digital interface (SDI) intellectual property (IP) MegaCore function to reduce development time by several months for its recently introduced line of Platinum video broadcast routers.
“Altera’s SDI solution was instrumental in reducing engineering time and maintaining high-definition signal integrity,” said Tim Thorsteinson, president of the Harris Broadcast Communications Division. “Altera provided us with a complete development framework, including a high-quality MegaCore, which optimized our engineering team’s productivity and allowed great flexibility in our video routers.”
Stratix II GX FPGAs support SDI, high-definition (HD)-SDI and 3-Gbps SDI serial data speeds with up to 20 triple-rate SDI full-duplex transceiver channels operating across a range of 270Mbps to 3Gbps. Its transceiver circuitry supports data rates up to 6.375Gbps and integrates hard-coded clock/data recovery (CDR) and serializer/deserializer (SERDES) functions.
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