Overview

The ViClaro III HD Video IP Development Kit is a versatile video and image processing IP development platform. Designed in conjunction with Altera®, the ViClaro III Video Host Board contains a Cyclone III FPGA, USB 2.0 PHY, 4-lane PCIe PHY, 64-bit DDR2 memory, two HSMC connectors and one dedicated HSMC LVDS connector for adding custom application specific HSMC compliant daughter cards.

The kit comes complete with a powerful suite of HD video processing IP Reference Designs based on Altera's Avalon® VIP system interconnect framework and supported by the high-performance Microtronix Avalon Multi-port DDR2 Memory Controller IP Core. The controller is highly efficient and able to utilize over 95% of the available memory bandwidth. This enables designers to build advanced high resolution (1920x1080p) video processing systems using low cost Cyclone III devices!  The PCI Express reference designs incorporate a 4-lane PCIe IP core from Northwest Logics Inc. The user is required to license this IP core if they are to build custom designs incorporating PCIe functionality. Linux drivers are supplied supporting read/write access to on-board devices and for building streaming video applications.

The Microtronix Multi-port DDR2 Memory Controller provides the high memory bus bandwidth required for building 1080p HD video systems using low

Features

• Altera EP3C120 Cyclone III FPGA
• 256MB (64-bit) DDR2 memory
• 4-lane PCIe PHY
• 72 LVDS channels on HD Video Host board • Altera compatible HSMC expansion connectors

Includes two of the following daughtercards of your choice:

• HDMI Receiver / Transmitter Daughter Card capable of supporting display resolutions from VGA to UXGA (1600x1200 and 1920x1080 [1080p@60]).
• Quad Link LVDS Interface Daughter Card with LVDS loopback cables supporting up to 1080p 100/120 LCD Display Panel supporting LVDS, Mini- LVDS, RSDS & PPDS interfaces
• Gigabit Ethernet PHY / HDMI 1.3 Transmitter Daughter Card

Comes with a single user, fixed node annual license for the following Microtronix IP Cores at no charge:

• Avalon Multi-port DDR2 Memory Controller IP Core
• Video LVDS Transmitter / Receiver IP Core
• I2C Master Controller IP Core

Other Deliverables Include:

• Suite of Full HD Video Reference Projects
  1.  HD Frame Capture to LVDS
  2. Deinterlace and scale 480i input to 720p
  3. Motion Adaptive Deinterlacer: 1080i input to 1080p
  4. Dynamically scale progressive input formats to 1080p
  5. Logo overlay on 720p input
  6. Quad LVDS links driving 1080p 100/120 Hz display panel
  7. PCI Express demo
• ViClaro III Video Host Board
• Two HSMC compatible daughter cards
•  USB-Blaster Download Cable

For additional information, please contact: sales with your requirements