"Nuvation immediately extends our internal engineering capabilities with their expertise in software, firmware, and hardware design, allowing us to quickly turn customer concepts into manufacturing-ready designs." -- InPlay Technologies
Nuvation is recognized globally for its specialized skills in Broadcast Video. Nuvation’s design capabilities include video FPGA development, image processing and compression algorithms, communication protocols, RTOS and C-based MCU firmware, chassis design, thermal analysis, signal integrity analysis, and high-reliability design.
Areas of Expertise
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Broadcast Video Board-FPGA-DSP-Firmware design
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Routers, Switchers, Video Servers
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Monitoring, Production Control, Terminal equipment
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MPEG-2, MPEG-4 part 2, MPEG-4 part 10 H.264
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Video Scalers, Muxing, Transcoding
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SD-SDI, HD-SDI, DVB-ASI, SMPTE 310M
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DVI, HDMI, HDCP, DisplayPort
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PCIe, GbE, 10GbE, DOCSIS, xDSL T1/E1, DS3/E3
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Backplane design, ATCA/CPCI/VME
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PowerPC and other MCU firmware
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Signal Integrity Analysis
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Mechanical/Thermal design
Project Examples
Wireless Surveillance System
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Full turnkey design services for wireless surveillance system
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Specification todemonstrationin under 5 months for DVR and smart camera
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Design won the 2005 CES Innovations Award
DVI/RGB Broadcast Video
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3-Board System capturing Analog & Digital (DVI-I) Video Streams
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Applies proprietary processing algorithms and sends out video streams over Gigabit Ethernet
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Freescale MPC8349 PowerQUICC and Virtex-4 co-processors
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Dual Gigabit-Ethernet Interface plus USB 2.0
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12 layer PCB optimized for signal integrity and heat dissipation
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PCB stays cool while dissipating up to 30 Watts in fanless enclosure!
Polyphase Video Scaler
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Highly Parameterized and Run-time Configurable Video Scaler
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Separable H and V design with independent polyphase filters
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Resolution support from 176x144 to 1920x1080
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Scales up or down by an arbitrary P/Q scaling factor
Digital Cinema A/V Subsystem
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Interface board between digital cinema projectors and standard theater audio sub-system.
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Projector sends 16 channels of time-multiplexed digital audio input over Cypress HOTLINK II interface
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FPGA outputs 16 channels of either AES3/SPDIF digitial audio or 24-bit analog audio
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Independent audio delays on each output channel for lip-sync
