Frame grabbers offload host CPU resources

New from Firstsight Vision, the Bandit-II series of frame grabbers features a high-resolution VGA accelerator that supports true colour display resolutions up to 1600 x 1200pixel.

New from Firstsight Vision, the Coreco Imaging Bandit-II series of frame grabbers features an integrated high-resolution, VGA accelerator that supports true colour display resolutions up to 1600 x 1200pixel.

This provides superior display quality for applications requiring live video display on the desktop and frees host computer slots.

The onboard VGA supports true colour display resolutions of up to 1280 x 1024 with refresh rates of up to 85Hz, and high colour displays of up to 1600 x 1200 at 100Hz.

With 16Mbyte of onboard memory, Bandit-II also supports highly optimised 2 and 3D display rendering.

The frame grabbers are available in AGP and half-slot PCI-bus format and offer full-frame video capture; onboard trigger, strobe and I/O; and a choice of sophisticated software development tools.

All Bandit-II boards are designed to offload host CPU resources and speed image acquisition and display.

On-board DMA transfers digitised images to VGA display memory and system memory in real-time.

A special hardware scatter-gather technique provides continuous high-speed image transfers across the AGP or PCI-bus with virtually no host CPU involvement.

Key features of the Bandit II include dual monitor display enabling combinations of video and VGA outputs of captured video and desktop information along with variants supporting capture from composite, S-video, RGB and progressive scan cameras.

Bandit-II Series frame grabbers are supported by Coreco Imaging's Sapera and IFC and WiT software development libraries under Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows 9x.

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