Renaud Lavoie

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Video and signal conversion, part 2

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In this concluding part, we’ll look at specific building blocks to carry out tasks, including graphic format conversion, VGA, DVI, HDMI and the oft-needed up/down/crossconverter.

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Routing demystified

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Multiviewers

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Multiviewers have become ubiquitous in most broadcast control rooms.

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Embrionix's 3Gb/s SDI SFP coaxial modules

By Renaud Lavoie published

Production studios and broadcast infrastructures are in transition to 3Gb/s SDI, creating increasing demand for interfaces that support long cable distance

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Video and signal conversion, part 1

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The evolution of the pluggable module

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A fiber-optic tutorial, part 1

By Renaud Lavoie published

In a previous Broadcast Engineering article (Understanding blocking capacitor effects, August 2011), I mentioned that one of the first tasks in my broadcast

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Understanding blocking capacitor effects

By Renaud Lavoie published

Why should we do AC-coupling on SDI and, how does AC-coupling degrade our SDI signal? In past experiences, many engineers asked me this simple question,

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