Video Analog Front-End 

Overview 

Today’s rapidly growing home entertainment consumer market is driven by superior video quality. Analog video front-ends play a pivotal role in this arena by providing a low power high resolution analog interface between video devices. Synopsys’ DesignWare Video Analog Front-End IP delivers high-quality video resolution (1080p/WUXGA) at minimal power and silicon area.

With more than 10 years of experience in developing analog front-end IP solutions for video applications, Synopsys offers a comprehensive portfolio of silicon-proven DesignWare Video Analog Front-End IP solutions designed to meet the requirements of specific analog video applications such as Standard Definition TV (SDTV), High-Definition TV (HDTV) and PC-Graphics.

The high-quality DesignWare Video Analog Front-End IP solutions support a wide range of process technologies from 180nm to 65nm, enabling designers to quickly integrate the IP into their SoC with significantly less risk and improved time-to-market.
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Broad Video AFE IP offering for analog SDTV and surveillance systems applications, that require very optimized set of functions , moderate sampling rate and 10/12-bit resolution.


 
AFEs for a range of applications from flat panel PC graphics to WUXG wide-panels, and AFE for High Definition Digital TV up to 1080p (60Hz) applications, requiring optimized full set of functions, very high sampling rate, 8/10-bit resolution and sync processing.

  • The #1 provider of Video Analog Front Ends (AFE)
  • More than ten years expertise in designing AFE for Video Applications
  • Silicon-proven, complete HDTV/PC Graphics AFE
  • Full 1080p and WUXGA @60Hz video standard support
  • Robust synchronism processing for perfect video image
  • Leverages Synopsys' advanced data conversion technology
Applications IP Type Video Functions Video Resolution

Analog SDTV, Surveillance Systems

SDTV  AFE

  • 10/12-bit 27/54 MSPS A-to-D Conversion;
  • Charge Pump Clamping for DC Restoration;
  • 2-bit Gain Control
  • Built In References
  • Single (Composite), Dual (S-Video) and Triple (Component) Channel Versions
  • Testability

Standard 27/54 MSPS Analog Video

Flat Panel PC-Graphics up to wide panel WUXG

PC-Graphics AFE

  • 8/10-bit up to 235 MSPS A-to-D Conversion
  • Regulated Bottom/Mid-scale Clamping
  • 7-bit Offset Adjustment for RGB & YPbPr Inputs
  • 8-bit Gain Adjustment for all Video Inputs
  • Sync slicing and  H-sync and V-sync processing and pixel clock generation
  • Sync-on-green separation

SXGA
UXGA
WUXGA

Digital TV up to 1080 p (60 Hz)

HDTV AFE

  • 10-bit up to 205 MSPS A-to-D Conversion
  • 3-bit Programmable 2nd-order Anti-aliasing low-pass filtering (6 MHz-125.5 MHz)
  • Multimode Clamping (7-bit calibrated, sync-tip, etc.)
  • External/Extracted from V-synch Coast
  • Robust Full Sync Processing for Composite Sync and Sync-on-Green
  • SCART support & Content protection compliant
  • And more...

1080i
1080p



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