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Picolo Tetra is
a new cost effective PCI video capture board
dedicated for multiple cameras video surveillance applications.
This new Picolo board acquires four real-time image
sequences in parallel. Picolo Tetra supports standard
composite video acquisition in color (PAL, NTSC)
or in monochrome format (CCIR, EIA).
Thanks to a high-quality hardware scaler,
the Picolo series acquire images at any format.
Arbitrary cropping to a region of interest is built-in.
Picolo generates bitmaps in all popular color formats
such as RGB, YUV, planar or packed.
The Picolo series video capture boards are
designed to drastically simplify the design of video
surveillance applications. System integrators benefit
from robust and easy-to-use standard connectors.
TTL I/O lines are provided for system integration.
In addition, Picolo Tetra is compatible with the MIO
module, enabling the system integrator to implement
isolated inputs and outputs.
Picolo boards come with different tools. The
MultiCam driver makes easier the management of
video surveillance applications. The boards are also compatible
with eVision, the Euresys image analysis tools. eVision
offers C++ and ActiveX tools to read and record sequences
of images using AVI files.
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- Four color video digitizers operating in parallel
- 240 fps
- 64 bits, 66 MHz PCI bus
- Color PAL / NTSC, monochrome CCIR / EIA
- 4 buffered video outputs
- MIO, I/O module compatible
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| Picolo Tetra Preliminary Features |
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Picolo Tetra is a PCI frame grabber capturing
in real time four video standard analog streams simultaneously.
Picolo Tetra is featured with I/O connectivity.
A modular approach allows to add video input,
video output as well as isolated input and output
digital lines.
- Four simultaneous video digitizers
Picolo Tetra is able to simultaneously digitize four
video signals, and to send the resulting digital
data in real time into the PC memory through
the PCI bus.
- 64 bits, 66 MHz PCI bus
Picolo Tetra bus capability is 64 bits at
66 MHz making this frame grabber compatible with the
most recent PC architectures. This wide
PCI bus supports a peak data transfer rate of 528
Mbytes/s. Picolo Tetra is compatible with conventional
PCI architecture, including 32 bits and 33 MHz
Signaling voltage compliance is 3V or 5V for
maximum versatility.
- On-board TTL I/O lines
TTL I/O lines are provided for easing system
integration. An internal 16-pin header connector provides
13 general purpose input / output TTL lines usable
for triggering image capture and interfacing to alarm
system.
- Video image formats
Picolo Tetra supports the acquisition of
full resolution images or any smaller-size
format, such as SIF. Acquisition of
full frame (two fields) or single field
images is selectable. Individual fields or frames as
well as video sequences are captured directly to the
PC memory. Picolo Tetra ensures an excellent fidelity
of the grabbed bitmap in respect of the original video
signal.
- Bitmap image formats
Before storing the acquired images into
the destination memory buffer, a pixel format
conversion takes place in real-time. Numerous
color or monochrome formats can be chosen.
PACKED: RGB32, RGB24, RGB16, RGB15,
YCrCb 4:2:2, YCrCb 4:1:1, Y8
PLANAR: YCrCb 4:2:2, YCrCb 4:1:1, YCrCb 4:2:0,
YCrCb 4:2:0, YCrCb 4:1:0, YCbCr 4:2:0, YCbCr 4:1:0
- Watchdog
Picolo Tetra offers a hardware watchdog
to monitor the software application and to restart
the PC after an anomalous inactivity time-out. This
ensures a reliable operation of unattended systems.
- Expandable architecture
Video input modules.
Picolo Tetra is designed to receive up to 3 video input
modules fitted each with four BNC connectors leading
to a maximum configuration of 16 connected cameras.
Video output module.
Four buffered video outputs are offered on an
additional four-BNC module as an alternative
to loop-through connecting the video sources.
These video signals represent the image applied to each
internal video color digitizer.
MIO compatible
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| MIO I/O Expansion Module |
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MIO I/O Expansion Module
4 input and 4 output isolated lines
Alarm signaling feature
Removable screw-terminal block
Monitoring LEDs
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MIO is an element of the Picolo modular architecture.It
brings flexible isolated logic inputs and outputs.
4 input and 4 output isolated lines
MIO offers four opto-isolated input and four
reed relay output lines. Each input line is interrupt-capable,
with independent edge sensitivity control. The status
of the lines is monitored by eight dedicated LEDs.
Alarm signaling feature
The first relay output can be configured as
an alarm signal. As long as the application
is not started, the alarm relay remains open. Once operating
correctly, the application closes the relay.
Removable screw-terminal block
Each line is available as a pair of electrical wires
on the sixteen-terminal block.
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