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ilinx and Xilinx Alliance member OmniTek this month will make available a real-time video-processing platform targeted at companies creating high-bandwidth equipment for a wide range of motionpicture industries. The new platform, called the OmniTek OZ745 Zynq™-7000 SoC Video Development Kit, includes all the key components to help OEMs improve system performance, reduce BOM costs and get to market quickly with new and innovative monitors, studio cameras, production switchers and an expanding list of other applications in the medical, automotive and aerospace industries that require leadingedge video technologies. The platform—which includes hardware, design tools, IP, an operating system and preverified reference designs— is built around the Xilinx® Zynq-7045 All Programmable SoC. This device inte-
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grates high-speed transceivers capable of supporting uncompressed HD video (for example, SD/HD 3G-SDI). “With this platform, the broadcast and professional A/V industry has, for the first time, a completely programmable device that bridges software and hardware domains,” said Roger Fawcett, managing director at OmniTek. Fawcett said that the Zynq-7000 SoC enables system architects to implement video- and audio-processing algorithms in two ways: either in software on the dual-core ARM processors onboard, or offloaded into FPGA hardware if the application needs acceleration to meet real-time demands. An FPGA solution is particularly useful for multichannel HD, 4K, faster frame rates and other sophisticated video demands. Further, the tight coupling between software processor and FPGA hardware makes it possible to develop codec algorithms in both domains. Analog + Digital Serial Ports Audio I/O SD Card Slot
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“It is also worth noting that each ARM® Cortex™-A9 processor includes a NEON single-/double-precision floating-point unit. Added to the DSP-rich FPGA fabric, this FPU gives the DSP designer a highly flexible platform on which to design all kinds of signal-processing algorithms,” said Fawcett. “Additionally, the ability to stream and process uncompressed video from transceivers through the FPGA hardware, while monitoring the video stream in software as well as implementing overall system control, means that the innovation possibilities are endless.” Then too, he said, a Zynqbased solution “also means saving power and cost through integration of multiple ASSPs.” The OmniTek board (see Figure 1) extends the capabilities of the Zynq device further by offering support for a wide range of signal types through five SD/HD 3G-SDI input/outputs; an
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Figure 1 – The board for OmniTek’s OZ745 Zynq-based Video Development Kit First Quarter 2013
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