Date: 03/05/2009

FPGA based free reference designs for display applications

Actel has made available a five free reference designs to design display applications using its Igloo FPGA kit. Actel, Attodyne and Avnet Memec have jointly developed these reference designs.

The reference designs available are,

1. DVI Input to LCD Reference Design
2. Upscaling Reference Design
3. Photo Viewer Reference Design
4. Video and Still-Shot Camera Reference Design
5. Video MUXing Reference Design

"Small to medium sized displays are everywhere-most notably in low-power, portable consumer, industrial, medical and automotive devices. These are perfect homes for low-power IGLOO FPGAs that perform various LCD control functions," said Rich Kapusta, vice president, marketing and business development at Actel. "Additionally, by providing the reference designs and VHDL source code free of charge, Actel is making it very easy, simple and inexpensive to get display-centric applications to market quickly."

"FPGAs bring a lot of flexibility to LCD control applications that ASSPs cannot provide," stated Jeff Ittel, senior vice president of business development and marketing for Avnet Electronics Marketing. "These reference designs jointly developed by Actel, Attodyne and Avnet Memec provide several benefits to our customers, including a proven design, access to the entire bill of materials from Avnet, and local technical support from Avnet Memec's factory certified field application engineers."

For details visit www.actel.com