Platform aids in streaming-video processing
By Gabe Moretti -- EDN, December 17, 2004
Celoxica developed PixelStreams as a response to the growing need for platform designs. The approach en-ables reuse of standardized IP (intellectual property) and still allows some hardware-design freedom. The design environment provides an interactive tool for the development of video- and image-processing applications. It offers a range of macro calls that allow users to gather, manipulate, and output streams of video-pixel data. The C-based models support design parameterization and abstraction of interface design.
Designers can use either C algorithms or a graphical editor to enter the design. Each block in the diagram represents a reusable IP core you choose from a library of video-data-manipulation functions. Designers can synthesize the C-based models from C to RTL using release V3.1 of the Celoxica DK Design Suite.
The PixelStreams platform, including the IP library and graphical editor, has a list price of $15,000. The product requires the DK Design Suite V3.1 for output to either an RTL netlist or FPGA programming files. The platform is also available with the RC300-board platform to create a complete prototyping environment.
Celoxica, +44 0 1235 863656, www.celoxica.com.
