Namsong Industrial Co., Ltd: Field Monitor
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Performance and flexibility of Xilinx device enables high reliability and precise imaging.
Namsong’s new high-performance multi-format XMD-9900 9-inch portable field monitor can be used on a rack or desktop, mounted to a camera, or deployed in the field for a variety of applications (studio wall monitor, broadcast van, field production, video tape recorder/double-data-rate memory replay).
Namsong credits the performance and flexibility of a Xilinx FPGA with enabling high-reliability, high-precision image processing features in the XMD-9900, including built-in vectorscope, standard auto-sensing HD serial digital interface (HD-SDI) input, analog-to-digital conversion, and re-clocked output. Namsong selected Xilinx for superior video image processing performance enabled by built-in HD-SDI receiver/transceivers and memory bandwidth controller.
Namsong was able to significantly increase architectural efficiency for tri-speed video by taking advantage of consolidated clock management tiles (CMT), including phase-locked loops (PLLs) with various digital clock managers (DCMs). In addition, the design team was able to build in more features into the system using extra memory space enabled by the multi-boot memory configuration.