Video filter ICs: Challenges of filtering video sources

摘要

The increased demand for consumer multimedia systems has created a large challenge for system designers to provide cost-effective solutions to capitalize on the growth potential in graphics and video display technologies. These applications will require cost-effective filtering solutions to deploy high-quality multimedia technologies rapidly and effectively to the target audience. Areas of specific interest are personal video recorders, HDTV sets, DVD players, and digital set-top boxes. One of the ways that engineers can reduce cost, increase time to market, and ensure reliability is by using integrated active video filter drivers. Filtering video sources presents many challenges to the mixed-signal multimedia designer. Integrated active filter drivers offer a cost-effective solution to enhance video signals after going through a decoding/encoding process.