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16 years ago

trancievers for video

Hi guys,

I'm very interested which types of video, exept HD-SDI, Altera devices transceivers can be used for? Any video that is transported via coaxial cables and has a proter data rate?

Please help me, I must get an understanding how transceivers can be used for video processing applications.

Thank you.

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    Altera_Forum
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    16 years ago

    The transceiver is really only used for serializing/deserializing a data stream. I work very heavily with SD/HD/3G SDI video and so I use the transceivers everyday for this purpose.

    Aside from that, the only other popular serial video streams I can think of are:

    ASI

    DVB-ASI

    HDMI / DVI (3 TMDS serial data channels plus clock)

    Displayport

    ASI and DVB-ASI can be handled with transceivers although the slow data rate doesn't necessarily justify a high-speed transceiver. I have seen some xilinx and lattice designs which handled DVI / HDMI with transceivers.

    Aside from that, you might serialize video data in your own format for the purpose of moving it from one place to another.

    Jake