SDI / Professional Broadcast Video Solutions

NEWS!

LMH0395 | LMH0394 Industry's Longest Cable Reach at Half the Power - Equalizers deliver 200 m at 3 Gbps and 115 mW typical

LMH0387 Industry's First Configurable I/O with Integrated Return Loss Network - Enables Bi-Directional Communication on Single BNC and Eliminates Complex External Return Loss Networks

LMH1983 Audio/Video Clock Generator Eliminates Need for External Clock Conditioning - Replaces Multiple VCXOs and PLLs

SMPTE 2011 – National proudly hosted the March 2011 SMPTE Technical Meetings at its Santa Clara CA headquarters. March 4-11, 2011

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SDI Product Table:

• Serial Digital Interface (SDI) (All products)
  • Equalizers
  • Reclockers
  • Reclockers with 4:1 Mux
  • Cable Drivers
  • Serializers
  • Deserializers
  • Switching / Conditioning (Crosspoints & Signal Conditioning)
• HDMI/DVI Cable Extenders
• Video Timing (Sync Separators & Video Clock Generation)
• Analog Video Amplifiers, Switches, & Muxes
• RS-422 Line Drivers and Receivers

Related Featured Sites:

• Interface Solutions Home
  • HDMI/DVI Cable Extenders
  • LVDS/CML Products
  • General-Purpose SerDes
  • Ethernet PHYs
• Video Timing including sync separators, clock generators, video timing reference designs, etc.
• Other clock and timing solutions including jitter cleaners, clock distribution, level translators, and PLLs
• Products for analog RGB video
• Displays Products
• Power for FPGAs, processors, ASICs

Selection Guides

Broadcast Video Selection Guide 2010 - 1st Edition (PDF 1.0 MB)

Design

SDI Eval Board / Reference Designs

• SDALTEVK - Triple-rate SDI & video clocking daughter card for Altera Cyclone III FPGAs
• SDXILEVK - Triple-rate SDI & video clocking daughter card for Xilinx Spartan-3A/3E FPGAs
• ML571-1982CLK - High-Performance LNH1982 Video Clock Module for Xilinx Virtex-5 LXT FPGAs
• emSFP - Video SFP Modules from Embrionix leverage National's SDI technology
• SDI Reference and 3rd Party Boards
• SDI/SDV Evaluation/Demo Boards

SDI Technical Documents:

• SDI Application Notes
• New High Speed Broadcast Video Connectivity Solution (3G) with Low-cost FPGA's (Spartan-3E, Spartan-3A) - XILINX White Paper (pdf, 618kB)
• SDI/SDV FAQs
• Broadcast Video Owner's Manual (1st Edition)

Featured Application Note

• AN-1943: Understanding Serial Digital Video Bit Rates
• Download the Calculator Spreadsheet (XLS)

SDI Design Tools:

• Download Interface IBIS Models
• ORCAD Schematic Library for 3G SDI Family
  Files include library symbols for the following SDI devices: LMH0340SQ, LMH0341SQ, LMH0302SQ, LMH0303SQ, LMH0307SQ, LMH0344SQ, LMH0346MH, LMH0356SQ, LMH0384SQ; also includes: LMH0030VS & LMH0031VS

Transmission Line RAPIDESIGNER Slide Rule for SDI:

• SDI (English) RAPIDESIGNER
• SDI RAPIDESIGNER Operation and Applications Guide (AN-1113) (99 KB, pdf)

Explore

SDI Online Seminars:

• Configuring the SDALTEVK Triple Rate SDI Reference Design
  (Dec. 2009 - 22min.)
• HDTV Serial System Design
  (2005 - 60min.)

SDI Video Shorts - LAB Demos!

• SDI Configurable IO Demo (2010, 4min.)
• SMPTE / SDI Jitter Reduction Demo (2009, 2min.)
• HDMI Cable Extenders (2009, 5min.)
• SDI Clocking Demo (LMH1981/2) (2009, 2min.)
• SDI 3G Chipset Demo (2009, 2min.)

See all videos and online seminars.

Guest Technical Documents:

• Understanding Jitter Measurements for Serial Digital Video Signals - Tektronix
• Testing Applications in Uncompressed HDTV Signals from SyntheSys Research Inc (pdf 311KB)

Industry Links:

• Standards Organizations
  • SMPTE
  • European Broadcast Union
  • Advanced Television Systems Committee
  • International Telecommunications Union
• Trade Shows
  • National Association of Broadcasters
  • International Broadcasting Convention
• Useful Links
  • Belden Inc