Target Applications

• Bridging of DBV-ASI sources using video-over-IP
• SDI video cameras
• Remote monitoring of a DBV-ASI TS using video-over-IP
• Digital Video Recorder's
• Video switches
• Video editing systems

Overview

Microtronix bundles an HDMI Receiver/Transmitter Daughter Card, a Triple-rate SDI card and a suite of HD SDI/ASI video reference designs with the Altera Stratix 3SL150 Development Kit to provide a complete Video-over-IP development solution. The Quartus video-over-IP reference design implements a system that bridges between MPEG transport stream (TS) video data and Ethernet based internet protocol (IP) networks.

The kit hardware includes:

• Altera Stratix III 3SL150 Development Kit
• National Semiconductor SDALTEVK SD/HD/3G SDI Adapter daughter board
• Microtronix HDMI Receiver / Transmitter HSMC Daughter Card, P/N: 6256-00-00

Key Features

Altera Stratix III Kit

• Altera Stratix III EP3SL150 C2 speed grade FPGA
• DDR2 SDRAM: 1-GByte DIMM and 16-MByte discrete devices
• 64-MByte flash memory
• Dual HSMC expansion connector
• Triple-speed Ethernet PHY

For a full product description see Altera website

Microtronix HDMI Receiver/Transmitter Daughter Card

• HDMI v1.1 Receiver & Transmitter
• Analog YCrCb video receiver
• Supports 480i / 720p / 1080i /1080p @ 50/60 Hz

National Semiconductor SDALTEVK SD/HD/3G SDI Daughter Card

• 2 SD/HD/3G SDI serializer & cable driver
• 1 SD/HD/3G SDI deserializer & equlizer
• 1 Multi-format video sync separator
• Multi-rate video clock generator with genlock

Included Suite of Microtronix IP Core*

• Avalon Multi-port DDR2 Memory Controller IP Core
• I2C Master Controller IP Core
• UDP and RTP IP cores supporting Video-over-IP

Quartus HD Video Reference Designs

The supplied Quartus HD Video Reference Designs are based on Altera's Avalon-ST Video Framework, ASI and VIP suite of cores and leverage the high bandwidth memory efficiency of the Microtronix Avalon Multi-port DDR2 Memory Controller for building high-resolution video systems.

Video-over-IP:

The Video-over-IP reference design supports transmission of a MPEG transport stream video stream between two DVB-ASI endpoints using video-over-IP on an Ethernet network. The design demonstrates monitoring of a DVB-ASI transport stream from a PC using an Ethernet IP connection.

Triple-rate SDI Broadcast Designs:

The SDI interfaces support Standard Definition SMPTE 259M (SD-SDI) interface, High Definition SMPTE 292M (HD-SDI) interface, and 3G SMPTE 424M (3G-SDI) video streams. Reference designs demonstrate the transport of 480i, 720p, 1080i and 1080p video from/to the HDMI ports over a looped SD, HD and 3G SDI interface.

Picture-in-Picture In-line Processing:

This design is based on Altera's Video IP suite and demonstrates in-line processing of a SDI video stream. It supports:

• Graphics overlay
• HD Video Frame capture
• Dynamic scaler

*Note: Microtronix provides a one year OpenCore Plus license for the included suite of IP