Digital video acquisition and real-time processing boards offer up to 480MB per second sustained transfer rate and maximum image resolution of four gigapixels
Kane Computing announces the UK launch of the Leonardo family of ultra fast CameraLink digital video acquisition and real-time processing boards.
Leonardo supports all three CameraLink configuration up to the full 64-bit format, and includes a PCI2.2 64-bit/66MHz host interface giving a maximum transfer rate of 528 MB/sec (480MB/sec sustained) to the host processor.
The Leonardo is equipped with a state of the art Xilinx Virtex-E FPGA, offering real-time pre-processing of the video data, such as grey-level contrast stretching, RGB mosaic colour restoration and random 2D convolution filters.
The video data is stored in a very large on-board memory (up to 1GB).
The maximum image resolution is 64K x 64K pixels.
The CL-P models also include a 600 MHz 64-bit RISC processor with 4MB zero-wait state SRAM cache memory. The RISC processor can be used for application specific on board video processing.
The Leonardo family offers software developers kits for Windows, Linux, real-time Linux, Solaris and QNX.
The product line includes standard PCI, Compact PCI and PMC modules. Available from May 2002, prices available on request.
