Harris Reduces Development Time with Altera
Harris Corporation selected Altera’s Stratix II GX-based development kit and 3-Gbps serial digital interface (SDI) intellectual property (IP) MegaCore function for their Platinum video broadcast routers. Altera enabled Harris to reduce development time by several months.
Altera provided Harris with a complete development framework, including a high-quality MegaCore, which optimized the engineering team’s productivity and allowed great flexibility in their video routers.
Stratix II GX FPGAs support SDI, high-definition (HD)-SDI, and 3-Gbps SDI serial data speeds with up to 20 triple-rate SDI full-duplex transceiver channels operating across a range of 270 Mbps to 3 Gbps. Its transceiver circuitry supports data rates up to 6.375 Gbps and integrates hard-coded clock/data recovery (CDR) and serializer/deserializer (SERDES) functions.
Using the Stratix II GX-based audio/video development kit, broadcast designers can maintain high signal quality in their HD systems. The development kit is the first to support triple-rate SDI, including the SMPTE 424M standard. It simplifies product development by enabling engineers to address HD degradation points, or “quality hot spots,” and implement the full 1080p HD video format in their studio systems.
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