suggestions for good MPEG encoder dev kit, embedded hard disk dev kit

Does anyone know if there is a dev kit available for an MPEG encoder ASIC - preferably one that I could connect to a real-time video source as input and connect to an FPGA board for post processing... In otherwords an MPEG ASIC dev kit with a lot of IO options.

Also can anyone suggest a (separate, additional) dev kit that would support reading and riding to a hard disk, preferably one that would come with its own HDD controller onboard, that could be talked to via an external microproc or FPGA.

thanks

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wallge
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If you already have an FPGA, why use an MPEG ASIC? You can encode MPEG in your FPGA.

Again, if you have an FPGA, why do you need an external "development kit"? If you are willing to use standard parallel ATA (as opposed to the let's-line-Intel's-pockets SATA drives) it is fairly trivial to interface to a hard disk.

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larwe

Well (A) the encoder IP for the FPGA is VERY expensive, (B) I am not going to write an MPEG encoder from scratch. thats why i'd rather have an ASIC and just pay for the chip itself. Also I am doing a lot of other processing on the FPGA and would like to not have to worry about saving FPGA logic/ external memory access for the the MPEG encoder.

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wallge

In that case, the best "evaluation platform" is probably a PC with a PCI MPEG encoder card and a hard disk :)

Video encoder and decoder ICs tend to be terribly difficult to get without NDAs, precisely because of all the expensive IP in them (and the horrific thought that someone might build a device that doesn't comply with whatever DRM bullshit the MPAA's bought politicians are trying to peddle at the moment).

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larwe

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wallge

"PC" does not imply "desktop computer". Look at embedded PC solutions from Advantech, BCM, etc.

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larwe

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