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News Release from: SBS Technologies | Subject: AVC-cPCI-3009
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 March 2005
Ruggedised server takes video in-flight
The AVC-cPCI-3009 is an advanced embedded 3U CompactPCI ruggedised situational awareness interface server for in-flight avionics systems.
The AVC-cPCI-3009 is an advanced embedded 3U CompactPCI ruggedised situational awareness interface server for in-flight avionics systems The AVC-cPCI-3009 is a stand-alone rugged computer designed to capture and process image data from multiple sources on an aircraft
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Aug 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The AVC-cPCI-3009 situational awareness interface server brings video and graphics data processing to a wide range of challenging avionics applications", said David Wessing, Vice President and General Manager of the Government Group.
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"This in-flight conduction-cooled video frame grabber system is a complete flight-ready graphics processing application and is optimised for harsh environments including shock, vibration, and higher than normal temperatures, offering our partners and integrators time-to-market and cost advantages over in-house designs", continued Wessing.
As a comprehensive flight-ready solution, the ruggedised AVC-cPCI-3009 is designed to capture frames from an NTSC video stream from an aircraft's onboard camera, compress the video frames, and then send the compressed image data over a network to another computer for further processing and display.
Using an FPGA-based processor to provide the flexibility of a software application with the performance of a hardware implementation, the AVC-cPCI-3009 situational awareness interface server brings a high degree of performance to in-flight command and control systems.
Also available as an option is the SBS TS-Series A25 imaging development kit which includes PCI FPGA computing hardware and software libraries that are required for additional software development of the AVC-cPCI-3009.
Using the development kit, system developers can expand the AVC-cPCI-3009's capabilities on a conventional PC and later port their applications to the target FPGA processor.
Available now, pricing for the AVC-cPCI-3009 situational awareness interface server starts at US $55,200 in single piece quantities.
Also available now, the TS-Series A25 imaging development kit starts at US $7500.
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