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DTV signal monitoring
Monitoring and measurement challenges in the digital television transition, including gamut monitoring, ancillary data, audio, physical layer troubleshooting and more.

Imaging and Camera Technology

System testing of digital camera devices as reverse engineering
Modern digital cameras and cell phones containing digital cameras are merely complex microprocessor systems with ever-increasing amounts of functionality.

Image stabilizers: Utilizing DSP for more advanced, scalable stabilization algorithms
How Human Monitoring's "Leonardo" image stabilization technology takes advantage of TI's DaVinci processor to bring high performance image stabilizing to mass-market cameras. A case study.

Building an ultra-low-cost video camera that offers high dynamic range
This article outlines the key issues from the point of view of a design engineer who has not previously worked with video.

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Display Technologies

How to dim CFLs
Compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) are replacing incandescent light bulbs at a rapid rate due to their tremendous energy savings and longer lifetime. Additional energy savings can be achieved by dimming, but the electronic ballast required to control the lamp has a higher cost and is difficult to design. This article explains how a CFL works, how to dim them, and describes a solution for 3-way dimming applications.

Build multicolor sign and video wall apps with RGB LEDs
Andreas Pohl describes the latest Avago RGB LED package approaches for full color indoor and outdoor displays and what needs to be taken into account when designing these large full color displays.

Protect LED driver in backlit displays
This circuit ensures that the driver subcircuit, including MOSFET and Schottky diode, are protected when the LEDS are disconnected

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Video Processing

Picking the right MPSoC-based video architecture: Part 3
A look at the design of multiprocessor systems-on-chips (MPSoCs) for video applications and how to optimize them for computational power and real-time performance as well as flexibility. Part 3: Critical communication bus structures

Picking the right MPSoC-based video architecture: Part 2
A look at the design of multiprocessor systems-on-chips (MPSoCs) for video applications and how to optimize them for computational power and real-time performance as well as flexibility. Part 2: CPU configurations and interconnections.

Picking the right MPSoC-based video architecture: Part 1
A look at the design of multiprocessor systems-on-chips (MPSoCs) for video applications and how to optimize them for computational power and real-time performance as well as flexibility.

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Digital TV/Home Entertainment

PRODUCT HOW-TO: Dealing with the risks inherent in HDMI EDID testing
How to avoid the risks of traditional ad hoc random source and sink testing of HDMI's Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) protocol by going to a more systematic approach based on Audio Precision's APx analyzer to present metadata in a view like a logic analyzer.

DTV signal monitoring
Monitoring and measurement challenges in the digital television transition.

Building YouTube into embedded applications
Direct-access YouTube viewing -- without going through a browser -- can add a compelling, valuable feature to a set top box, media player or other device. How to build direct-access YouTube utilizing a TI DaVinci processor.

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Mobile/Portable Video

New transmission mechanisms for MOST enable powerful video applications
The MOST infotainment network was originally launched with a bandwidth of 25 Mbps, a bandwidth that was more than adequate for audio applications. The latest generation, MOST150, has a capacity of 150 Mbps, and is designed to serve powerful video and packet data applications in your car, as well as classic audio applications. Besides the higher bandwidth, MOST150 introduces additional transmission mechanisms such as isochronous data transfer over the synchronous network.

Batteryless energy harvesting for embedded designs
In the era of 32- and 64-bit multicore behemoths, 8- and 16-bit MCUs get new respect for power management.

Building YouTube into embedded applications
Direct-access YouTube viewing -- without going through a browser -- can add a compelling, valuable feature to a set top box, media player or other device. How to build direct-access YouTube utilizing a TI DaVinci processor.

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About the Video/Imaging DesignLine How-To Section
Video/Imaging DesignLine's How-To Section delivers detailed engineering articles focused on the design and development of imaging and camera technology, display technologies, video processing, digital TV, home entertainment, mobile video and portable TV devices, as well as other technology relating to video and imaging. This includes design of products such as digital camcorders, set top boxes, TV receivers, portable media players, media servers, home video networking devices, surveillance cameras and digital video recorders incorporating technologies such as codecs, DSP, FPGA, System-on-Chip, CCD, CMOS, H.264, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.

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