Description

Texas Instruments has developed a family of Serializers and Deserializers intended to support the Serial Digital Interface (SDI) standards of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). These devices connect to a host FPGA through a moderate speed, moderate width (600 Mbps, 5 bits wide) port, saving the high cost, high speed FPGA resources. The complete function is accomplished through a combination of the Texas Instruments peripheral I.C. and the IP in the FPGA. To aid in the rapid development of systems incorporating these components, Texas Instruments has also developed two evaluation modules – one, the SDXILEVK has an EXP interface port, and connects to Xilinx development platforms, and the other, the SDALTEVK has an HSMC port and will connect to Altera development systems. Texas Instruments provides both example applications running on these platforms, and a library of source code functions which can be used to develop specialized applications.