Altera provides one of the largest portfolio of video processing designs – all built using the Altera VIP suite of video cores.
- The Altera video and image processing example design demonstrates dynamic scaling and clipping of a standard definition video stream in either NTSC or PAL format and picture-inpicture mixing with a background layer. The video stream is output in high definition resolution (1024×768) over a digital video interface (DVI). This design is fully verified on the Cyclone III Video development kit.
- Various format conversion reference designs that use the SDI video input – primarily used in broadcast applications. These designs feature two-channel up/down/cross conversion that entails polyphase scaling, motion adaptive deinterlacing, mixing and frame rate conversion for resolutions up to 1080p. These designs have been verified on the Stratix II GX Audio Video development kit.
- Altera's partner Bitec has developed multiple reference designs that work with Cyclone III Video Dev Kit. Scroll to the bottom of this page to get designs that showcase color space conversion, Picture-in-Picture, 4-channel video compositing and even a 1080p H.264 encoder design.
- Altera's partner Microtronix has also developed a portfolio of video reference designs that are available with their Stratix III Broadcast IP Dev Kit and with their Cyclone III ViClaro Video Dev Kit
These designs use the Altera VIP functions in conjunction with high bandwidth memory efficient, Microtronix Avalon Multi-port DDR2 Memory Controller for building high-resolution video broadcast systems. The designs showcase motion-adaptive deinterlacing, dynamic scaling and graphics overlay.
These reference designs are available with the purchase of the development kits from Microtronix.
