Xilinx and Image Processing Techniques (IPT) have developed and launched the Advanced Video Development Platform (AVDP) based on the PCI Express compliant endpoint block embedded in Xilinx Virtex-5 LXT and SXT FPGAs. Designers of postproduction equipment, video servers, and encoders to broadcast monitors will benefit from the high-performance, flexible, and scaleable solution.
The platform supports SDI, HD-SDI, Dual Link SDI, 3G-SDI and DVB-ASI connectivity via a daughter card option, enabling the streaming of broadcast and digital cinema quality video to and from a standard PC motherboard and associated hard drive through a PCIe 1x/4x interface. IPT also provides VHDL source code IP for key video building blocks: a 2-D resizer/scaler which supports high quality conversion from SD to HD and cinema resolutions; a motion adaptive deinterlacer to present progressive scan images to flat panel displays; and the DMA control used for managing high bandwidth data across the PCI Express interface.
Image Processing Techniques, www. imageproc.com
Xilinx, www.xilinx.com
