Altera's Video and Image Processing Solutions
Figure 1. Solution Areas
Altera and its partners offer a wide range of development kits, IP, and reference designs to provide complete solutions for video and image processing. These complete, obsolescence-proof, FPGA solutions can easily be customized and optimized for cost, performance, and value-added functionality. Solutions can be targeted to any of Altera's latest device families, including the low-cost Cyclone® III FPGAs and high-density, high-performance Stratix® III and Stratix II FPGAs. Stratix II solutions include a no-risk cost reduction path to HardCopy® II structured ASICs.
Solutions include:
- Pre- and post-processing functions for video and imaging applications
- Video system I/O including the Digital Video Broadcast Asynchronous Serial Interface (DVB-ASI) and Serial Digital Video Interface (SDI) standards
- Video compression encoding and decoding for the latest standards, including H.264, JPEG, JPEG2000, MPEG-2, MPEG-4
Consumer demand for innovations—such as high-definition televisions (HDTVs) and digital cinema—continues to drive the rapid evolution of video and image processing applications. With major advancements in image capture and display resolutions, advanced compression techniques, and video intelligence, the processing bandwidth required for video applications continues to grow. Also, rapid change in standards and higher resolutions are pushing designers away from off-the-shelf technology.
Altera is addressing these trends with modular, programmable video and image processing solutions that offer high performance, flexibility, upgrade ease, low development cost, and a migration path to lower cost when applications mature and volume production ramps. You can use Altera® video and imaging solutions as digital signal processing (DSP) coprocessors or as stand-alone solutions.
- Compared to stand-alone DSP video and imaging solutions: DSP devices alone cannot meet the processing requirements of many video and imaging applications. Altera solutions improve the price-to-performance ratio by letting FPGA coprocessors do the heavy lifting. For example, allowing you to implement cost effective, high-definition (HD) solutions using a single DSP device and a single FPGA instead of as many as 8-10 DSP devices.
- Compared to ASSP devices: ASSP devices typically lag in supporting rapidly changing video and imaging standards. ASSPs can also be made obsolete quickly by their manufacturers as new standards emerge. You can use FPGAs as common platforms in video solutions because they can be easily upgraded to support higher resolutions and new video standards as they are introduced. Their reprogrammability also eliminates obsolescence risk for a design.
- Compared to ASIC solutions: ASIC solutions cannot be changed as easily or cost effectively as FPGA solutions. FPGAs shorten time to market, eliminate NRE costs, and allow you to innovate in real time to support new emerging standards, new feature requests, or respond to new feature releases from your competitors.
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Pre-/Post-Processing:
- Video and Image Processing Suite
- Deinterlacer
- Color Space Converter
- Scaler
- Alpha Blending Mixer
- Gamma Corrector
- Chroma Resampler
- 2D Filter
- 2D Median Filter
- Line Buffer Compiler
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Video System I/O:
Compression:
Video and image processing functions are utilized in a variety of markets including automotive, broadcast, consumer, medical imaging, military, and industrial applications. The following end-market solution centers provide all the design tools and information systems that you'll need to implement high-performance system applications.
Some common video and image processing end applications include:
Many video and imaging application designers are already taking advantage of Altera FPGAs to improve the cost, performance, and flexibility of their applications and to meet demanding and rapidly changing customer requirements. Altera's new video and imaging IP Suite, reference designs, and development kits make it even easier for you to take advantage of scalable and flexible FPGA video and imaging solutions.
- Broadcast customers: Barco, Doremi labs, Panasonic, Tektronix
- Medical imaging customers: 3D Computing, Inc.
- Consumer display customers: LG Electronics, TCL-Thomson Electronics Corporation, Texas Instruments
- Automotive customers: Blaupunkt, Hirschmann Electronics Group, Johnson Controls, Inc., Seventech Merlin, Toolrama
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