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17 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? ...
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17 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