APRIL 24--Altera (San Jose, CA) has announced a comprehensive, high-performance FPGA solution for designers of video and image-processing applications. Comprised of intellectual property (IP) cores, development kits, FPGAs, and reference designs, the new offering addresses the need for increased processing bandwidth in video and image-processing applications.
Altera's video and image-processing technologies can be implemented as stand-alone FPGAs or as FPGA coprocessors supporting DSP processors. In high-definition applications, multiple stand-alone DSP processors may be required because a single DSP processor cannot efficiently perform compression algorithms. FPGAs also lower price-to-performance ratios by either acting as a coprocessor for the DSP processor or by replacing the DSP processor altogether. In addition, FPGAs provide advantages over ASSPs because they can be easily upgraded to support higher resolutions and new video standards.
Altera's latest device families, including low-cost Cyclone II FPGAs, high-density, high-performance Stratix II FPGAs, and HardCopy II structured ASICs, support the video and image processing solution.
For more information about Altera's video and image-processing solution, visit www.altera.com/video_imaging.
