FPGA-Based Analog VGA NTSC/PAL Video Scrambler/DeScrambler

Job ID: 39040676

Budget: $750 – $1,500 USD

I need an FPGA expert to create a system that scrambles/descrambles analog VGA NTSC/PAL video signals. The selected FPGA is iCE40HX1K (or iCE40HX8K) so you must have access to their development platform (iCEcube2) [you can request free access through them]. The goal is to use a standard high-speed 8-bit ADC/DAC for encoding/decoding, but we could also potentially use ADV7280/ADV7391 instead.

We currently have a setup that retransmit the video signal through the FPGA with the regular ADC/DAC, but it has a lot of static in the output video. Solving this issue would be the first step or deciding if we need to switch to ADV7280/ADV7391 right away. It would really help if you have some components (FPGA, ADC/DAC, VGA Camera/Monitor) on your side, but otherwise we can run some tests on our setup.

We need somebody with previous experience with analog VGA NTSC/PAL signals and FPGA, so please state any relevant experience you have. The project will be split into multiple milestones to better track progress and assess if you will be able to complete the project, but you can propose a cost/time for the full project or split it into proposed milestones yourself. We need someone pro-active that will propose solutions to overcome any challenges we encounter and that can focus on this work (we don't want this project to take months).

Please start your proposal with "VGA" to confirm that you have read the project description.