Altera Corporation announced that it is shipping its audio/video development kit, Stratix II GX edition, the FPGA-based audio/video development kit designed to support triple rate SDI (serial digital interface), including the new 3 Gbps SMPTE 424M standard.
Chuck Meyer, president and CEO of NVISION, said, “Altera offers superior FPGA solutions. We currently use Altera’s low-cost Cyclone II devices in our NV8288 Digital Video Router, as well as Altera FPGAs in our machine control and audio routers, the NV5256 and NV7512. As a leading FPGA provider, we consider Altera as a viable programmable logic vendor supporting this new 3G standard in the future.”
Louie Leung, Asia Pacific marketing director, Altera, stated, “Designers of broadcast audio and video equipment now have a development kit that allows the design of their systems on a single programmable platform for addressing their cost, performance and quality requirements with the latest technology while meeting their time-to-market goals. With the impressive performance and flexibility of our Stratix II GX audio/video development platform, designers can easily meet the rigorous requirements of today’s high-definition standards.”
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