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10 years ago

CVO II and genlock

I have a video processor design built using the VIP suite and everything is working as expected using a free-running CVO clock. However, my attempts to genlock the CVO to an external pll do not seem...
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9 years ago

This is the official response from Altera as well (via SR). The CVI II and CVO II do not currently support Genlock in spite of what the VIP Suite User's Guide says. We have already discovered that embedded syncs don't work for the CVO II (and haven't for several releases of Quartus). The new VIP modules do not appear to be ready for the broadcast video customer.

Michael