Altera and Bitec deliver platform for next-generation video system development
(Product News, 28 Mar 2008 )
Altera Corporation and Bitec have announced the availability of a video development kit that enables designers to rapidly develop and prototype high-performance, cost-sensitive video applications. At the heart of the kit are Altera’s Cyclone III FPGAs, which are an ideal video processing platform given the device’s large parallel processing capabilities with up to 288 multipliers, 4-Mbit embedded memory blocks, and low power consumption. The kit supports multiple video I/O formats, allowing video application developers to quickly develop, debug, and prototype designs using their lab video signals and displays. The video development kit features a Cyclone III development board with two High-Speed Mezzanine Connector (HSMC)-based video interface daughtercards developed by Bitec. The kit supports composite, S-Video, DVI and RGB video and contains:
· Cyclone III EP3C120F780 development board · Quad-Video HSMC daughtercard (8 composite or 4 S-Video inputs) · DVI HSMC daughtercard and DVI cable · Quartus II Web Edition software · Access to Altera OpenCore Plus evaluation intellectual property (IP) megafunctions including the Video and Image Processing (VIP) Suite · A CD-ROM with a video mosaic reference design developed by Bitec
