Simultaneous grabbing of 2 or 4 CVBS, YC,
Progressive Scan or monochrome cameras
25 regions of interest per camera to reduce
PCI bus load
PAL (768/720 x 576), NTSC (640/720 x 480)
and SECAM (768/720 x 576) support
RGB, YUV, grayscale and B/W output formats
Independent scaling in horizontal and vertical
direction
Independent mirroring in horizontal and
vertical direction
Resolution doubling for grayscale and B/W
RGB and YUV colour calibration
Ordering Info: Part No. See below
Description
Designed to get the most out of any S-Video/Composite colour or standard black and
white camera, the Ellips Santos is a high
performance PCI frame grabber, targeted at real-time
industrial image processing applications.
The Ellips Santos offers PCI bus master DMA, allowing burst transfers of up to 132 MB/s (depending on the quality of the main board) without tying up the main CPU, combined with a very flexible transfer controller. The PCI interface supports scatter-gather DMA which allows an image buffer to be spread in memory.
The Ellips Santos has four independent input modules that can be connected to any combination of CVBS, YC, Progressive Scan or monochrome cameras. Each input module has its own DMA channel and doesn't need to be synchronised to the other input modules.
In many image processing applications only a few areas of the entire image need to be captured. For this purpose each of the four niput modules can capture 25 regions of interest. These regions can be adjusted every field and can even overlap or have different output formats (RGB, YUV, greyscale or black and white). In this way PCI bandwidth is greatly reduced, allowing more framegrabbers to reside in the same system.
Each input module has enough memory for two frames or four fields. While capturing one fram buffer, the other buffer is transferred to main memory. Since the entire frame is already stored in onboard memory, incidental PCI peak loads do not cause pixels to be dropped by a FIFO overflow. Once a frame or field is captured it is guaranteed to be transferred to main memory completely.
Ordering Information
Santos Basic - Santos high performance PCI Framegrabber, high speed DMA transfers, simultaneous grabbing of 2 CVBS, YC, Progressive Scan or monochrome cameras and 4 general purpose I/O pins.
Santos Full - Santos high performance PCI Framegrabber, high speed DMA transfers, simultaneous grabbing of 4 CVBS, YC, Progressive Scan or monochrome cameras and 6 general purpose I/O pins.
