Nu Horizons signs global deal with OmniTek for UK-designed advanced video development platform

The AVDP is based around the Virtex 5 family of 65nm FPGAs from Xilinx and is a PC-based system that enables video system engineers to prototype and test complex high-speed signal processing algorithms in real-time.

Applications include de-interlace and resizer algorithm development for flat-panel displays, high resolution image processing in medical equipment, development of image manipulation systems, CODEC prototyping and video capture/playout with local processing and high PC bandwidth.

Using 65nm FPGA technology, coupled with a high-speed 4x PCI Express bus interface and a plug-in video I/O module, the compact board provides 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 platform accepts any 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 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. A fully documented application programming interface (API) is also supplied to enable easy control of the card and a sample graphical user interface (GUI) application allows fast access to hardware features.