Design Note #33
OTEC’s latest circuit board design features dual Altera Cyclone devices. Dual Cyclone devices perform high speed video image management, video enhancement and video capture services. OTEC’s selection of dual Cyclone devices was driven by both Cyclone’s lowest cost-highest FPGA performance advantage and OTEC’s many years of Altera design experience. “Bringing up an Altera Design is virtually risk free,” says lead OTEC designer Paul Nickelsberg. He adds, “The Quartus toolset and our years of Altera design experience help us get the job done on schedule and on budget.”
OTEC is an old hand at Altera FPGA and CPLD design and development. Working within Altera’s new Quartus environment gives OTEC much greater design control. OTEC inputs design data in AHDL, Verilog or VHDL depending upon the required FPGA performance. Altera PROBE signals and Quartus’ rapid compile time permits enhanced debug and timing verification, once the design actually hits the lab bench. Quartus simulation and test bench facilities allow pre-verification of the design before circuit board implementation.
Using on-chip synchronous SRAM, OTEC implemented video image LUT lookup tables, a seven line deep digital video input FIFO and a five by five 64 bit wide convolution filter to perform real-time video edge enhancement functions. No DSP can perform twenty-five 64 bit-wide multiplies in three clock ticks—but a very wide parallel Cyclone design can!
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