Altera is demonstrating its first single-chip 4K, format conversion reference design with a serial digital interface (SDI) at IBC2010 in Amsterdam this week.
Altera's 4K reference design includes the Video Design Framework which includes the Video and Image Processing (VIP) Suite with MegaCore functions to support video and image processing designs.
Also included is the hardware demonstration on a Stratix IV GX A/V Kit for affordable 4K video capture, editing, playback, format conversion and projection solutions, the Nios II embedded processor, a multi-port front-end DDR3 memory controller and the integrated SDI.
Intended for projector, broadcast and camera designs, the Stratix IV-based reference design can be used to replace as many as nine off-the-shelf chips to perform 4K format conversion (four 1080p format conversion chips and five chips for SDI input and output).
The Stratix IV EP4SGX230 FPGA can also support other video I/Os such as DisplayPort and video compression (encoding/decoding) processing.