User guide

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Video System Solutions
Your Video System Design Starts Here …
Before you start your next video system design, check out the largest, most comprehensive collection of
video solutions in the FPGA industry.
By building your next design using Altera
®
video intellectual property (IP), reference designs and
development kits, you’ll be able to take full advantage of Altera's innovative FPGA features, including:
• Inherently parallel digital signal processing (DSP) blocks
• An abundance of embedded memory blocks
• A large number of registers
• High-speed DDR memory interfaces
Altera video system solutions have three components to help you create the most dependable system
design and finish development fast:
1. Altera Video Design Framework – This is a combination of IP cores, interface
standards and system level design tools that are developed to enable a plug-and-play
video system design flow. Altera provides a comprehensive suite of video function IP
blocks that can be connected together to design and build video systems. Plus, designs
built using the Altera video design framework are open, allowing you to easily replace
an Altera IP with your own custom function block.
2. Suite of Video reference designs – Reference designs created by Altera as well as our
partners and built using the Altera video design framework. This substantial suite of
image format conversion reference designs are hardware verified and available
immediately to serve as the starting point for your application.
3.
Range of DSP Dev Kits for Video – Kits, also designed by Altera and our partners, to
help you prototype your video system design. These kits support a range of video I/O
formats (such as SDI, ASI, DVI, HDMI, Composite and VGA), and are based on our
highly regarded Stratix
®
, Arria
®
and Cyclone
®
FPGA families.