Altera and Apical deliver surveillance solns

Altera Corporation and Apical announced
the world's first high-definition wide href="http://www.ciol.com/Technology/Security/News-Reports/New-Soln-for-video-surveillance-cameras-released/133793/0/">dynamic
range (WDR) CMOS
image-sensor-processing solution href="http://www.ciol.com/Technology/Security/News-Reports/New-Soln-for-video-surveillance-cameras-released/133793/0/">
for video-surveillance cameras.
Altera is demonstrating the solution at the International Security
Conference (ISC) West Expo from March 24 to 26 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

"While previous sensors have shown
good performance in either low-light or bright-light conditions, they
have never been able to do both, until now," said Michael Tusch,
CEO, Apical. "Once we realized DSPs could not perform the
functions we needed, we turned to href="http://www.ciol.com/Semicon/SemiPipes/News-Reports/Altera-planning-innovations-for-its-first-28-nm-chips/130907/0/">Altera's
Cyclone FPGAs because they
offered the performance required to run Apical's IP for the cost
point and power restrictions for the surveillance market."

"Altera's FPGAs are enabling our
customers to do more with their designs, especially in the industrial
market where traditional DSPs and ASSPs have hit a wall," said
Michael Samuelian, Director-Industrial and Automotive Business
Unit, Altera. "Altera's low-cost and low-power Cyclone series of
FPGAs are being used as the main image-processing element from image
capture to image display. With our FPGAs and Apical's IP,
next-generation video surveillance equipment will get to market
faster and have unlimited potential," he said.