Xilinx FPGAs power Interativa LED display system

Xilinx Inc. has announced that a LED displays manufacturer headquartered in Brazil, Interativa Paineis Eletronicos, has selected Xilinx Spartan Series and Virtex-II Platform FPGAs for their recently launched color LED display system.

Additionally, Interativa has also worked closely with Birger Engineering Inc., a Xilinx XPERTS partner and provider of image processing and compression algorithms, to implement its video processor module and LED driver board.

"We were able to pinpoint the right part for the right functionality across the board," said Ricardo Ramos, president and CEO of Interativa. "This was true for the panel processor, where the small footprint and low cost Spartan-IIE FPGA could be employed. For the main processor, we selected the high performance Virtex-II Platform FPGA - with its triple DES encryption, we were assured that the bitstream could not be pirated."