Converter Cards

Faraday have developed a range of converter cards which can be plugged into a customers mother board to receive a variety of inputs and convert them to the standard parallel digital signal and a range which takes the output from a standard parallel digital signal and converts it to a variety of output formats. Input or output may be digital or analogue depending on the converter card selected.

Digital signal processing has been used in television since the early 1970s when the first standards converter from NTSC to PAL was developed. The digitisation of video signals lead to the development of the television graphics industry operating in an analogue environment. Although it is possible to operate purely digitally for economic and practical purposes the majority of television systems use mixed technologies.

This has lead to equipment manufacturers having to provide both analogue and digital inputs and outputs and the development of a specialised standards conversion and interface industry.

Converter Cards Diagram