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News Release from: Aitech Defense Systems | Subject: M503
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 September 2005
Mezzanine card offers real-time MPEG
encoding
A compact real-time MPEG video/audio encoder implemented on a standard PMC efficiently encodes either NTSC or Pal video into an MPEG-2 transport stream.
Aitech Defense Systems now offers a compact real-time MPEG video/audio encoder implemented on a standard PMC that efficiently encodes either NTSC or Pal video into an MPEG-2 transport stream The M503 encoder is ideal for both rugged and military applications using real time video/audio compression
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 Mar 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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These include recording mission data in advanced target tracking weapons systems and transmitting video/audio surveillance data in unmanned ground and aerial reconnaissance vehicles.
The new M503, which employs an IBBP GOP video frame encoding mode at full D1 resolution (CCIR-601, CCIR-656) with industry-standard stereo MPEG layer 2 audio, enables in-the-field video and audio compression and transmission.
The single-width M503 - fully compliant with IEEE1386.1-2001 - features pause and resume encoding as well as dynamic, user-defined encoder and video parameter adjustment to give users more control of image transmission and quality.
In addition, adaptive prediction mode selection and frame/field DCT improve coding efficiency, especially for encoding interlaced video.
The new M503 offers refiltering and colour format conversion of 4:2:2 to 4:2:0.
A companion PMC product - the M550 - provides real-time MPEG decompression to extract the video and audio data back to their original formats.
The M503 MPEG encoder consumes only 5W typical power in operation, features 12Mbyte of onboard RAM, supports 32bit PCIbus operation at 33MHz, and is fully compliant with the PCI Rev 2.1 specification.
The new M503 also incorporates front panel or backplane-based inputs.
Drivers supported include VxWorks and MS Windows 98 (vendor-supplied reference drivers).
The M503 employs a universal PMC interface that supports both +5 and +3.3V PCI universal signalling levels, and is available in both air-cooled and conduction-cooled versions.
Pricing for the M503 starts at $1920.
Delivery is from stock.
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