PR Newswire
Apr 10, 2007 08:00 ET

Altera Unveils First 3-Gbps SDI Interface Enabling Maximum HD System Quality at NAB2007

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
What: Altera Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR)
and its high-definition (HD)
video partners will showcase a broad portfolio of industry-first
programmable solutions, including a 3-Gbps serial digital
interface (SDI) for use in broadcast system designs, at the
upcoming National Association of Broadcasters (NAB2007) show in
Las Vegas. Visitors to Altera's booth C3347 will see
demonstrations of:

-- The first FPGA-based 3-Gbps SDI audio/video development kit
for accelerating the design of new systems based on the full
HD format, 1080p
-- An FPGA-based Video over IP reference design incorporating the
Pro-MPEG Code of Practice (CoP) #3r2 standard with forward
error correction (FEC) supporting 256 channels
-- A Digital Media Broadcast Terrestrial/Handheld (DMB-TH)
modulator for television broadcast in China
-- Altera's integrated broadcast design framework and Video and
Image Processing Suite

When: April 16-19, 2007

Where: Booth C3347
Las Vegas Convention Center
Las Vegas, Nevada

Additional Information:
Visitors to Altera's booth will also see demonstrations from key
Altera broadcast design ecosystem partners including:

-- ATEME -- H.264 HD unprecedented video quality at low bitrates
-- Let It Wave -- Breakthrough standard-definition (SD)/HD format
conversion
-- 4i2i -- MPEG2 pro-decoder
-- BroadMotion -- High-quality JPEG2000 CODEC technology

Altera products are employed through the broadcast chain as shown
by the table below, which shows some of Altera's customers in the
broadcast space, many of whom are exhibiting at NAB 2007.

Acquisition
& Post- Management Distribution Display Pro
Production Production & Systems & Delivery Systems Audio

For-A Avid Axon Arris Daktronics Digidesign
(Avid)
Ikegami Matrox DekTec Ateme LG Dolby
Matsushita Pixelpower Doremi Labs Barco Loewe Euphonix
NEC Edgeware BBN Panasonic Fairlight
Panasonic Evertz Harmonic Philips
Sony EVS Ktech Samsung
Thomson Insync/Snell Motorola Sharp
Lietch/Harris Pace Sony
Miranda Pixelmetrix Toshiba
NVISION Radyne
Snell & Wilcox Radyne
Tektronix Rhode
& Schwarz
Vistek/ Scientific
Pro-Bel Atlanta (Cisco)
Sagem
Tandberg
Thomson
T-VIPS
W & W

For additional information on Altera at NAB2007 or to register for the event, please visit http://www.altera.com/education/events/northamerica/evt-nab2007.html.

About Altera

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