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Updated: July 8th, 2008 05:26 PM CDT
Frame Grabbers
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MuTech Corporation (Billerica, MA) recently announced their FalconEye
PCI Bus Wavelet Engine, a color/monochrome engine capable
of switching video sources, digitizing, compressing and storing
compressed video data either to fixed or removable media;
the compressed data can also be transmited to a local or remote
location via LAN, WAN or Internet. The FalconEye contains
on-board compression hardware capable of processing sixty
fields per second of CCIR601-format digital video. This board
provides up to 16 Event Inputs and 2 Strobe Outputs; videos
from up to 16 cameras may be selected for recording or transmission
at the Extended setting, with up to 8 video sources supported
on the MDR-36 36-pin connector. A video output provides a
preview of the selected channel on a video monitor. — Indicate 212 under January 03
The PXI-1409, from Texas-based National Instruments, is a multichannel monochrone image acquisition board. PXI combines a PCI bus with timing and triggering feaures to provide asynchronous acquisition and integration with motion and data acquisition (DAQ) devices. Engineers and scientists can achieve user-configurable resolution with 8-bit (256 grayscale) or 10-bit (1024 grayscale) acquisition, increasing accuracy from standard and non-standard cameras. The PXI-1409 includes four video inputs to connect multiple cameras, and hardware calibration for consistent image acquisition.
— Indicate 213 under January 03
Last, but certainly not least, we turn our sights toward Aix-en-Provence, France, where PLDApplications produces a frame grabber called the PCI-X XSYS. This grabber supports base, medium and full Camera Link or LVDS up to 133 MHz, accepts image data from 1 to 4 area or line-scan cameras and provides monochrone or RGB images. Features include a 64-bit PCI-X interface, embedded procecssing, on-board buffering and storage, generic Camera Link and LVDS interfaces supporting various cameras, scalable hardware architecture and a fiber optic option for remote acquisition.
— Indicate 214 under January 03
Next month's feature: Hard copy products.
