Altera Corp. and PLDA SAS have announced an expanded collaboration to bring flexible solutions to the professional audio/video broadcast market. The initial result of this collaboration is the introduction of the first of a new line of intellectual property (IP) cores and the audio sample converter (SRC), which is now available free of IP license fees to qualified customers of Altera’s Stratix and Cyclone FPGA device families.
“In order to better serve our customers in the audio/video broadcast market, we chose to collaborate with PLDA because of their decade-plus history of bringing quality solutions to market,” said Louie Leung, marketing director at Altera. “Working closely with quality IP providers like PLDA enables us to offer our customers complete solutions that include FPGAs, development kits, mission-critical IP cores and optional design services.”
“Altera’s programmable logic solutions are very successful in the broadcast market, and PLDA is known for delivering high-quality, ‘complete product’ IP cores to the FPGA design community,” said Callan Carpenter, Vice President of business development for PLDA. “Integrating SRC functionality into an FPGA eliminates the need for multiple ASSPs, reducing system cost and board space.”
The SRC CoreThe SRC core is highly configurable, handles up to eight pairs of stereo signals, and converts and synchronizes most combinations of sample rates between 32kHz and 96kHz. An upgrade to support input and output sample rates of 192kHz is scheduled for release in October 2007. Users can also choose between AES-EBU or I2S interfaces. The SRC features professional-grade performance with a THD+N of greater than 120dB across its operating range.
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