SiliconGear Integrates Spartan-6 FPGAs into HD Video Surveillance Platform

SiliconGear has designed Xilinx Inc.'s Spartan-6 field programmable gate array (FPGA) into its latest generation high-definition (HD) video security and video display platform.

SiliconGear is a leading supplier of FPGA and system-on-a-chip (SoC) platforms for manufacturers of low-cost, high-performance HD-serial digital interface (SDI) digital video recorder (DVR) and set-top box surveillance equipment. The company recently introduced its new Spartan-6-based multi-channel HD video multiplexer, HD digital video recorder (DVR) solution at Secutech 2011, the 15th international conference for electronic and information security.

SiliconGear selected Spartan-6 FPGAs over competing FPGA and application-specific alternatives because its built-in transceivers, high-speed memory controllers and HD-SDI capability met end market requirements for superior DVR video and image processing performance. Over the past year, the company has also designed Xilinx FPGAs into three generations of DVR and set-top box solutions.

"Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGAs were ideally suited to our customers' application requirements, making it possible for us to get to market quickly with a low-cost, high performance HD-SDI DVR solution ahead of our competition," said SiliconGear Chief Technology Officer Jong-Yoon Im. "With our new HD-SDI platform, manufacturers can easily implement high-speed transmission of HD video over cable, while significantly reducing their bill of materials by integrating system functionality previously performed by discrete logic for video MUX (multiplex), controllers and other glue logic. "Going forward, we see tremendous potential for Xilinx 28nm 7 series FPGAs for our next-generation DVR and set-top box platforms. We're also looking at developing a complementary HD-SDI camera image signal processing solution."

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