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12 years ago

SDI with Clocked Video In/Out - How to go from 10 bits to 8 bits color depth???

Hi I have 4 SDI video interfaces (two in and two out) in my project. I will be using Altera’s SDI II IP core. As you may know that the core de-serializes the input HD-SDI into 20-bit YCB/YCr d...
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11 years ago

For those with the same questions, here's what I found out: you can directly connect the SDI II rx core databus to 8-bit/color plane CVI block by simply using SDI [19:12] -> CVI [15:8] and SDI [9:2] ->CVI [7:0]. No need to use CSC to convert to 8-bit colour system.