IP Black features

Main functionnalities currently available in ATHLET^® Black IP core are:

REAL-TIME OBJECTS HANDLER 

• Mobile objects
• Multi-color formats and independent color format for each object
• Full-color layers with complex/cumulative transparency management between layers
• Pixel and global transparencies management for each object
• Full mixing between Videos and Graphics
• Fully resizable objects and Videos
• Full-color pipeline
• Complex clipping management
• Horizontal & Vertical filtering
• Multi images formats

VIDEO

• Multi video inputs management with simultaneous display capability
• Flexible/dynamic Picture-In-Picture
• De-interlacing
• Frame rate conversion
• Glueless connection to digital video interface standard BT.656 
  

DISPLAY

• Configurable timing controller 
• Multi-timings management
• Multi-screens management with coherent content  capability 
  

SYSTEM

• Unified memory architecture
• Optimized to any SDRAM memory buses size (32, 64, 128 bits)
  

SOFTWARE

 High-level API for easy application development (hidden complexity)

• Embedded image decoders (JPEG, PNG)
• Embedded Font decoder (multi-instantiation, antialiased True-Type, ...)
• Basic 2D-renderer
• RTOS compliant
  

MATERIALS

• ALTERA FPGAs (Cyclone & Stratix I, II) 

RESSOURCES & PERFORMANCES 

•  see ATHLET^® Component User Manual
  

APPLICATIONS

• Automotive (CLUSTER, HUD, CID, RSE, ...)
  
• Military
• Avionics
• Consumer
• PLV