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18 years ago

Cyclone III, Nios II evaluation KIt & analog video

Hi all,

I'm planning to connect an analog camera (PAL/NTSC) to the composite video input. I know the capabilities of ALTERA above video&image processing. I'm thinking of use Deinterlacer, chroma and color space converter.

I'm not sure about how interfacing with the analog front-end intalled in the multimedia Terasic board.

Thanks in advance.

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    Hi Alberto,

    The demo example provided by MTDB is actually in HDL. I am supposed to work in the nios environment. So, that is actually no good to me... :do you have any experience in the nios ide?
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    I have some experience with NIOS IDE. I have also thought to do the capture video using NIOS because I usedn't to program in HDL. You can rescue the configuration of the paremeters about audio and video from the file I2C_AV_Config.v.

    They must be transfered after powering up the video codec chip by using i2c controller. I know there is a free i2c IP from opencores.org, that you can use. This is only for hardware.

    You should need to implement a deinterlacer block and chroma resampler using either Simulink or SOPC Builder in order to get the incoming pixels.

    You can reach me by mail or private message if you want.
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    Hi,

    Could you please explain the procedure to display a video on to the LCD panel of the Nios II Cyclone III evaluation board .

    I have verilog code ready with me , and i generated .sof file from that, I am confused on how to assign the pins to the LCD panel ?

    If possible could you please send me the document mentioning the pins of the LCD panel ?

    Is there any procedure to display our video code on to the screen ?

    Eagerly waiting for a reply.

    Thanks,

    Srinath.
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    I've checked video application using my cyclone II evaluation kit, using a project verilog based downloaded from the TERASIC web page.

    You must keep in mind that this application only works for NTSC analog video input, but not using PAL video. In this case you should change some parameters