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13 years ago

Which FPGA should be used?

What FPGA should be used to run a single channel LVDS LCD panel and run video processing to play movies.
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13 years ago

Personally, I'm a big fan of Cyclones as they're cheap and powerful enough for what I do. That said, if you're doing decompression (I'm assuming you're using compressed video) on the fly, you'll definitely need hardware multipliers, so that implies Cyclone II or higher. What kind of external memory are you using and where are you pulling your data in from?

I'm not aware of any tools out there that'll make it easier although OpenCores.org might have some...

-Mux