For Release: August 29, 2006
***MEDIA ALERT***
Discover How Altera's Programmable Solutions Drive Innovation in the Broadcast Industry at IBC2006
San Jose, Calif., August 29, 2006—
What:
Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) will showcase its portfolio of industry-leading programmable logic solutions for the digital broadcast industry at the upcoming International Broadcasting Convention (IBC2006) event in Amsterdam. Visitors to Altera’s booth will see demonstrations of programmable logic-based solutions that enable designers of broadcast applications to rapidly go to market and deliver high-quality broadcast products to their customers. These demonstrations include:
- The industry’s first complete FPGA-based video over Internet protocol reference design with pro-MPEG forward error correction (FEC) implementation
- The first FPGA-based 3-Gbps serial digital interface (SDI) intellectual property (IP) on the market and SDI, high definition-SDI IP
- Altera’s Audio Video Development Kit, Stratix® II GX Edition
- Altera’s FPGA-based Video and Image Processing Suite
Visitors to Altera’s booth will also see demonstrations from several Altera® partners including:
- ATEME—H.264 HD broadcast quality encoder
- Let It Wave—Breakthrough SD to HD upconverter
- Commsonic—Scalable and optimized DVB-S2 and J.83 modulators
- EBV—Video board
When:
September 8–12, 2006
Where:
Hall 8, Booth 375
RAI Congress Centre
Amsterdam
Additionally, IBC2006 attendees can also see Altera’s technology at work at the following exhibits:
| Company |
Product Type(s) |
Product(s) |
Booth Number |
| Alitronika DVS |
ASI Adapter, DVB-T/H modulator devices |
|
3.142 |
| Ateme |
Real-time SD & HD MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 encoding technology |
- ATE4000
- H.264 HD broadcast quality encoder
|
4.378 |
| Ciprico |
Storage solutions for HD video content creation |
|
7.510 |
| DekTec |
ASI/SDI USB-2 Adapters, DVB-C, DVB-S, DVB-T modulator cards, DVB-IP Gateway, low-profile PCI Express cards for ASI/SDI interfacing |
|
3.123 |
| Let It Wave |
Upconverter for deinterlacing, scaling, noise removal, and enhancement |
- Let It Wave Video Upconverter
|
8.268 |
| T-VIPS |
Video Gateways cProcessor |
- TVG410 SDI to IP TVG420 ASI to IP
- TVG415/TVG430 JPEG2000
- CP510 TSP
- CP520 MUX
- CP540 Switch
|
4.161 |
| Tut Systems |
Real-time SD & HD MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 encoding technology |
|
4.256 |
| W&W Communications |
Low delay broadcast-quality video encoders and decoders |
- Single chip H.264/MPEG-4 AVC encoders and decoders
|
7.835 |
For additional information on Altera at IBC2006 or to register for the event, please visit
www.altera.com/ibc2006.
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