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News Release from: Traquair Data Systems | Subject: FireWire enabled micro-line boards
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 July 2003
DSP boards take on FireWire video
Traquair Data Systems has added support for video frame capture via FireWire to its micro-line family of embedded DSP boards.
Traquair Data Systems has added support for video frame capture via FireWire to its micro-line family of embedded DSP boards Micro-line DSP boards target the embedded DSP OEM marketplace, offering developers high quality, cost engineered outsource solutions
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Jun 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Existing micro-line support for 400Mbit/s IEEE1394a FireWire communications has been enhanced by the addition of software support for FireWire cameras, allowing micro-line developers access to an ideal image frame capture and processing platform for a wide range of embedded real-time imaging applications.
Single or multiple camera configurations can be supported.
An instrumentation and industrial digital camera (IIDC) FireWire Camera compliant software function library allows developers to control camera operation from DSP resident application code.
Various video modes and formats are supported, ranging from 8 to 24bit/pixel, and 160x120 to 1600x1200 frame sizes.
A multitude of additional software configurable features are available based on individual camera functionality.
Examples include adjustable frame rates, brightness, auto exposure, sharpness, white balance, hue, saturation, gamma, shutter, gain, trigger mode, zoom, pan, tilt, and optical filter.
Developers can process the captured image data in real-time with powerful user-programmable DSP and FPGA resources provided on micro-line DSP boards.
The flagship of the micro-line family, the C6713 Compact provides a high performance TMS320C6713 DSP (maximum performance 1800MIPS or 1350MFLOPS), a Virtex-II FPGA with 256K, 512K or 1M gates, and an onboard dual-port IEEE 1394a FireWire interface.
The 512K and 1M gate versions are able to master the 64Mbyte of onboard memory, making such configurations ideal for high-speed 2D convolution.
FireWire enabled micro-line DSP board configurations start at around $1200 in quantities of 100.
The FireWire camera interface software is now available at a cost of $1300.
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