Cobalt Digital, openGear 9902-UDX, 3G Up/Down/Cross Converter

The Cobalt® 9902-UDX 3G/HD/SD Up-Down-Cross Converter/Frame Sync/Audio Embed-De-Embed with Multi-Input Auto-Changeover provides a high-density card-based solution that offers unprecedented multi-input support and flexibility.

With option +ANC, the 9902-UDX offers full VANC/HANC ancillary data packet de-embedding and embedding for 3G/HD/SD-SDI streams. The easy to use interface allows direct access to DID and SDID locations to extract or insert user data such as camera PTZ, SCTE 104, closed-captioning read/insert, GPI/GPO via ANC, or other specialized user payloads. Data can be extracted and inserted within the card, bypassing the scaler (Bridge mode), or inserted and/or extracted to and from external interface via serial or IP interfaces.

Option +TTS provides high-quality Text-To-Speech synthesis, directly converting EAS text to digital audio speech with no baseband signal breakouts or add-ons. It interfaces with industry standard Windows Share folder systems to receive non-proprietary text, XML, or similar plain text files, and converts and inserts realistic human-voice audio into user-configured audio channels. Option +EAS provides the ideal solution for keying Emergency Alert System (EAS) text crawls in the active video. Option +EAS directly converts serial crawl text data from EAS generators (such as Sage™ or Dasdec™) to a keyed scrolling text insertion. User-configurable fill background color and text size can be correlated to event severity.

Quality Check option +QC allows failover to alternate inputs based on user-configurable subjective criteria such as black/frozen frame or audio silence. Two discrete character burn strings can be inserted on output video, with each string inserted as static text and/or insert only upon LOS. Import of user trouble slate graphics is also supported in addition to standard test pattern insert as an input LOS marker. With option +T-SLATE, import of user trouble slate graphics is also supported in addition to standard test pattern insert as an input LOS/quality event marker. A moving-box insertion can be enabled to serve as a dynamic raster confidence check even when the input video image is static. Included standard is closed captioning absence/presence detection that allows CEA 608/708 and line 21 SD CC absence or presence to be detected, with event actions consisting of GPO, automated alert email actions, or go-to card user presets or other actions.

The up/down/cross convert scaler is specifically designed for broadcast video progressive and interlaced formats, with full ARC control suitable for conversions to or from 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios. 3:2 pulldown optimization allows A-frame to use alignment correlated to received timecode or 6 Hz external input over GPI. AFD processing can detect an incoming AFD code and correspondingly set scaling to track with AFD. Linear Frame Rate Conversion option +FRC allows conversion between virtually any SD/HD/3G format – from 525/625i to 1080p and anything in-between – with conversion to and from NTSC and PAL available for all input and output formats. The 9902-UDX also provides analog CVBS video inputs and outputs, and AES/analog audio embedding and de-embedding.

Preset save/load allows saving custom card settings while allowing one-button revert to factory settings. Layered presets allow invoking changes related only to a specific area of concern (audio routing, for example) while not changing any other processing settings or aspects. Full user DashBoard™ or Remote Control Panel remote control allows full status and control access locally or across a standard Ethernet network. GPIO allows direct input routing control and status monitoring. Description
Power
< 18 Watts

SDI Input/Outputs
Up to (4) 75Ω BNC inputs
Up to (4) 75Ω BNC outputs (selectable as processed SDI IN or IN RCK).
SDI Formats Supported: SMPTE 259M, SMPTE 292M, SMPTE 424M
SDI Receive Cable Length: 3G/HD/SD: 120/180/320 m (Belden 1694A)
SDI Return Loss: >15 dB up to 1.485 GHz; >10 dB up to 2.970 GHz
SDI Alignment Jitter: 3G/HD/SD: < 0.3/0.2/0.2 UI
Timing Jitter 3G/HD/SD: <2.0/1.0/0.2 UI
Minimum Latency (scaler and framesync disabled):
SD: 127 pixels; 9.4 us
720p: 330 pixels; 4.45 us
1080i: 271 pixels; 3.65 us
1080p: 361 pixels; 2.43 us

CVBS Video Input/Outputs
(1) 75Ω BNC input
(1) 75Ω BNC output. CVBS can be upconverted to any supported SDI format; all SDI formats can be downconverted to CVBS.
ADC resolution/sampling: 10-bit; 4x oversampling
DAC resolution/sampling: 10-bit; 16x oversampling
Y/C separation:4 line Adaptive Comb Filter
Freq.Response:± 0.25 dB to 5.5 MHz
SNR:>50 dB to 5.5 MHz (unweighted)
Differential Phase:<1 degree
Differential Gain:<1%
Nonlinearity:<1%

Discrete Audio Input/Outputs
(1) AES-3id 75Ω BNC input
(1) AES-3id 75Ω BNC output
(2) Balanced analog audio inputs
(2) Balanced analog audio outputs.
I/O conforms to 0 dBFS = +24 dBu.

Input Select/Auto-Changeover Failover
Manual selection (forced) of any input.
•Failover to alternate input on loss of target input. Failover invoked upon LOS and/or (with option +QC) user configurable parametric criteria such as black/frozen frame or audio silence.
- Black frame trigger configurable for black intensity threshold and persistence time.
- Frozen frame trigger configurable for frozen percentage difference and persistence time.
- Audio silence trigger configurable for dBFS floor threshold and persistence time.
• Relay bypass SDI IN B to RLY BYP B upon loss of power.

Timecode Insertion/Burn-In
Burn-in and embedded video output timecode selected via user controls from input video SMPTE embedded timecode and/or audio LTC. Burn-in enable/disable user controls. Configurable for burn-in string of seconds, seconds:frames, seconds:frames:field. User controls for text size and H/V position.

Text Burn-In
(2) independent strings supported. Independent insertions controls for enable/disable and enable upon LOS. User controls for text size and H/V position.

Frame Sync Audio/Video Delay
Max offset: 20 frames
Latency (min): 1 frame
Option +DLY Delay (3G/HD/SD): >800 msec / >1580 msec / >9000 msec

ARC
ARC manually configurable (custom) or automatic triggering in full compliance/conformity with AFD (SMPTE 2016), VI (RP186), and WSS triggering.

User Audio Delay Offset from Video
Bulk delay control: -33 msec to +3000 msec.
Per-channel delay controls: -800 msec to +800 msec.

GPIO/COMM
(2) GPI configurable to select input routing. (2) GPO configurable to invoke upon input selected. RS-232/485 comm port. All connections via rear module RJ-45 GPIO/COMM jack.

Frame Reference Input
(2) reference from frame bus. SMPTE 170M/318M “Black Burst”, SMPTE 274M/296M “Tri-Level”