PR Newswire
Sep 8, 2005 00:30 ET

Xilinx Demonstrates Video-Over-IP Solution Using Virtex-4 Technologyat IBC 2005

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- What: Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX)
, the world's leading programmable logic
supplier, will be demonstrating an FPGA-based Video-over-IP solution at
the International Broadcasting Conference (IBC) in Amsterdam beginning
September 9, 2005. The Virtex (TM)-4 family of FPGAs provides the
performance and the embedded functions required in Video-over-IP
applications. The demonstrations will include several newly developed
Virtex-4 FX family validation and demonstration boards for video, audio,
and Ethernet. Additionally there will be a demonstration of a single
FPGA H.264 Encoder solution, using the H.264 Encoder IP developed by 4i2i
Communications.

When: September 9-13, 2005

Where: RAI Convention Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
(Hall 4 -- Stand Number 4.436)

Xilinx Booth (Hall 4 -- Stand Number 4.436) Demonstrations:

-- Video-over-IP: This demonstration will directly take in a DVB-ASI
source and encapsulate the data into 1 Gbps (Gigabit per second)
Ethernet packets. The reverse path accepts Ethernet encapsulated
packets and extracts the MPEG Transport Stream (TS) for decode and
display on a high resolution monitor. This will demonstrate end-to-end
functionality from an incoming DVB-ASI source, decoded and encapsulated
as IP packets, transmitted and received over Ethernet coax then encoded
back to DVB-ASI for display on the high resolution monitor. This
demonstration will highlight the powerful features of the Virtex-4
silicon that are ideally suited for Video-over-IP solutions.
The Xilinx(R) Virtex-4 solution has unique advantages for
Video-over-IP applications such as the embedded PowerPC(TM)405
processor with 16K Bytes of program cache and 16K bytes of data cache,
and the embedded Tri-mode Ethernet MAC. One advantage of these
embedded integral pieces of the solution is the space within the device
to accommodate advanced Video-over-IP features such as multiple
transport streams, timing, jitter and latency management, MPEG encode
and decode functions, out of order Ethernet packet manipulation and
Forward Error Correction (FEC). In addition, the user benefits from
lower power and higher performance using diffused hard IP vs. soft IP
as well as PowerPC405 cache memories instead of precious RAM blocks.

-- Virtex-4 HD/SDI Hardware Validation Platform: The demonstrations will
include several newly developed Virtex-4 FX family validation and
demonstration boards for video, audio, and Ethernet. The Xilinx ML471
Virtex-4 FX Serial Digital Video Platform board supports serial digital
video formats SMPTE 292M, SMPTE259M, DVB-ASI and AES/EBU Audio. The
ML471 SDV board can operate in stand alone fashion or can be mounted as
a "personality module" within a 1U 19 inch rack mount, ML410
development system providing all the normal computer peripherals,
memory, and disk drives.

-- HD H.264 single FPGA solution: This demonstration will show a High
Definition H.264 Encoder solution using IP developed by 4i2i
Communications. The solution leverages the architectural advantages of
the Virtex-4 FPGA to enable a small footprint High Definition H.264
solution.

-- PCI Express: This demonstration will show the tremendous performance
advantages of the PCI Express interface using Xilinx FPGA technology.
Four simultaneous streams of broadcast video content coming directly
across a PCI Express interface will be displayed.


In order to learn more about Xilinx broadcast solutions, visit http://www.xilinx.com/esp/dvt .

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