Arria II GX Audio Video Development Kit from OmniTek

The Arria^® II GX Audio Video Development Kit from OmniTek combines Altera’s proven 40-nm FPGA-based development hardware and associated intellectual property (IP) with OmniTek’s expertise in video algorithm IP and PCI Express interface design. This kit is ideal for all parts of the audio/video workflow, as shown in Table 1.

Development Kit Contents

The Arria II GX Audio Video Development Kit from OmniTek includes:

• Altera^® Arria II GX FPGA Development Board (see Figure 1)
• Terasic Technologies Transceiver Serial Digital Interface (SDI) high-speed Mezzanine card (HSMC)
• Altera Complete Design Suite DVD, including:
• Quartus^® II Software Development Kit Edition (1-year licence)
• Nios^® II Embedded Design Suite
• OpenCore Plus access to MegaCore^® IP Library
• Altera Triple-Speed (3G, HD, and SD) SDI intellectual property (IP)
• Altera Video and Image Processing Suite
• Altera Format Conversion V-Series Reference Designs
• MegaCore function version of OmniTek Multi-Channel Streaming DMA Controller IP (complete with Windows drivers)
• Compiled SDI to PCI Express Bridge Video Streaming Reference Design, featuring 2X video input, 2X video output, audio embed/de-embed, and SMPTE 2020 embed/de-embed IP
• Altera CD-ROM and OmniTek CD-ROM, including design examples, schematics, and complete documentation
• Future extension to include OmniTek audio and SMPTE 2020 (Dolby E Metadata) embed/de-embed IP

Figure 1. Altera Arria II GX FPGA Development Board from OmniTek

The Altera Triple-Speed SDI IP and the OmniTek DMA Controller IP and reference design are initially provided encrypted and tethered to the Altera Arria II GX development environment. However, the development kit can be upgraded to include fully-featured, untethered versions of the DMA Controller IP, the Triple-Speed SDI IP, and supporting IP—still only targeted at Arria II GX FPGAs, but available at a considerable discount on the full cost of this IP. A further upgrade to full source code versions of the OmniTek IP and reference design is also available from OmniTek.