Altera provides one of the largest portfolio of video processing designs – all built using the Altera® VIP suite of video cores.
Altera Video Reference Design
- 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-in-picture mixing with a background layer. The video stream output is 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® IV GX development kit.
Omnitek Video Reference Design
Altera's partner Omnitek has developed two channel up/down/cross conversion with Arria® II GX video development kit.
Bitec Video Reference Design
Altera's partner Bitec has developed multiple reference designs that work with Cyclone® III video development kit. Scroll to the bottom of Bitec's page to get designs that showcase color space conversion, Picture-in-Picture, 4-channel video compositing, and even a 1080p H.264 encoder design.
Microtronix Reference Design
Altera's partner Microtronix has also developed a portfolio of video reference designs that are available with:
These designs use the Altera VIP functions in conjunction with high-bandwidth, memory-efficient Microtronix Avalon® Multiport 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.
Design Examples
There are unsupported design examples published by partners and community users in Altera Video Framework Wiki.
