Nu Horizons is marketing a Virtex 5 FPGA-based video development platform which has been developed by OmniTek from Basingstoke.

The AVDP is a PC-based system designed for prototyping and testing high-speed signal processing algorithms in real-time.

Applications are likely to include de-interlace and re-sizer algorithm development for flat-panel displays, development of image manipulation systems and codec prototyping.

The platform accepts any Xilinx Virtex-5 device in a 1136-FFG package, including the Xilinx LX50T, LX110T, SX50T and SX95T.The AVDP has 1Gbyte of DDR-2 SDRAM clocked at 266MHz and 144Mbit QDR-II SRAM clocked at 250MHz.

The board has a x4 PCI Express bus interface and a plug-in video I/O module, providing up to 1Gbyte/s transfer rate and 12 bidirectional serial data ports for video interfacing, each of which can operate at up to 3.2Gbit/s.

The AVDP comes complete with a software development kit, including source code in C++, which can be compiled using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and FPGA Source Code for 2D resizing, motion adaptive de-interlacing, video I/O and PCIe DMA.  

See http://uk.nuhorizons.com

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