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INTRODUCTION

As the power of digital processing devices continues to rise without a corresponding increase in price, this subject has seen and will continue to see dramatic changes. Increasingly processes that required dedicated hardware are carried out in general-purpose processors. Gate arrays grow ever more capable. Although the hardware changes, nevertheless the principles explained here remain the same.

A SIMPLE DIGITAL VISION MIXER

The luminance path of a simple SD component digital mixer is shown in Figure 5.1. The CCIR-601 digital input is offset binary in that it has a nominal black level of 1610 in an 8-bit system (64 in a 10-bit system), ...

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