Compact And Cost-effective Video Capture Frame Grabber With 16 Inputs

The Euresys PICOLO-TYMO is a top-quality video acquisition card compatible with standard PAL or NTSC cameras. They are dedicated to high-end applications in the fields of video surveillance and security, or entry-level applications in the field of machine vision such as quality control and production monitoring. PICOLOTYMO faithfully digitizes the video signal provided, offering perfect image fidelity to make the most of the data provided by a camera.

Numerous color or monochrome formats are available including all popular color formats such as RGB, YUV, planar or packed.

A fully digital technique is used to synchronize the digitizer operation on the incoming video signal. Before PCI transfer to the PC, the acquired images can be scaled to any format smaller than the original one, down to 1/12 (1/8 for the Picolo Alert). The downscaling process involves a sophisticated hardware device, performing an accurate interpolation in both the horizontal and vertical directions. The image buffer for a downscaled image is smaller in size, and its transfer needs less PCI bandwidth. Moreover, any part of the incoming image can be retained for further PCI transfer, allowing to define a region of interest.

Before storing the acquired image into the destination memory buffer, a pixel format conversion takes place in real-time. Numerous color or monochrome formats are available such as packed RGB32, RGB24, RGB16, RGB15, YCrCb 4:2:2, YCrCb 4:1:1, Y8 or such as planar YCrCb 4:2:2, YCrCb 4:1:1, YCrCb 4:2:0, YCrCb 4:1:0, YCbCr 4:2:0, YCbCr 4:1:0.

All Euresys cards are PCI bus mastering agents that directly store the acquired images into the PC physical memory without CPU involvement. As a unique feature, the Euresys capture cards automatically recover the scatter-gather virtual memory mapping to present the data as a regular bitmap image in a user allocated memory buffer.

→ Watchdog
→ Image adjustments such as video contrast, brightness and color saturation - adjustable hue in NTSC only -
→ Wide range of cards with various possible number of cameras
→ Direct capture of individual frames as well as video sequences to PC memory
→ Synchronization and Scaling
→ Bitmap Image Formats
→ Bus Mastering

PCI interface(s)	32-bit, 66 MHz PCI standard- and low-profile brackets
Video signals	Interlaced composite PAL/NTSC S-Video interlaced
Video resolution	Square - Broadcast, QCIF => Full D1
Video acquisition rate	Up to 200/240 fps, up to 100/120 ips
Nr. of real time cameras per card	4
Max. cameras per card	16
S-Video inputs	4
Video acquisition type	Real-time => Quick switching
Video input connector	On the bracket = HD44F, Internally = 2 PH40M, 75-Ohm termination resistor = Internal jumpers
Video output	1 selected with cascade input
Size	Low profile, Half length
I/O connector(s)	Internal = PH20M
Max I/O lines	9 professionals, On-board input lines = 4 contact-closure, On-board output lines = 5 solid-state relay
Spider cable	Connectors: HD44M - 16 BNC
Drivers for Windows® 32-bit and 64-bit	MultiCam and DirectShow filters and MultiCam
Drivers for Linux® 32-bit and 64-bit	MultiCam