Euresys - Picolo Pro3

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Picolo Pro 3 is a full-featured expandable PCI capture board designed for multiple-camera systems addressing video surveillance and security applications.

Picolo Pro 3 supports the acquisition of full resolution color images including the square-pixel resolution (640 x 480 or 768 x 576). Up to 16 composite video signals are captured directly through standard BNC inputs. The quick switching capability offers an optimized frame rate for all acquisition conditions.

A Picolo Pro 3 solution includes one PCI board, up to four video modules and up to five I/O modules . These modules can be mounted inside or outside the PC.

An RS-485 serial line is offered for system integration such as pan-tilt-zoom control. The watchdog function increases the system security.

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Low-cost standard frame grabber:

Picolo-series

For image processing and analysis look at the extraordinary tools suite bullet eVision.

Features:

Expandable architecture up to 16 cameras
Internal or external modules
up to 4 video modules with each supporting 4 additional cameras
up to 5 opto isolated I/O Modules "MIO"
suited for PAL, NTSC, SECAM, CCIR und RS-170-signals
full image formats 640x480 and 768x576
industrial BNC connectors

The multiple video inputs of the Picolo Pro 3 are sequentially acquired using a proprietary switching method. The resulting switching latency for unsynchronized cameras is never more than 33 ms in NTSC and 40 ms in PAL.
This leads to the typical following performance:

NTSC configuration	1 camera	4 cameras	8 cameras	12 cameras	16 cameras
Fields / Frames per second (per camera)	60 / 30	6 / 4	3 / 2	2 / 1.5	1.5 / 1
Fields / Frames per second (all cameras)	60 / 30	24 / 17	24 / 17	24 / 17	24 / 17

PAL configuration	1 camera	4 cameras	8 cameras	12 cameras	16 cameras
Fields / Frames per second (per camera)	50 / 25	5 / 3	2.5 / 2	1.5 / 1	1.2 / 0.9
Fields / Frames per second (all cameras)	50 / 25	20 / 14	20 / 14	20 / 14	20 / 14

real-time acquisition
image acquisition scaling up to 1:16
Up to 20 digital TTL I/O lines and RS-485 serial line
According to the modular configuration, one to four RJ-45 connectors are available. Each of them offers five digital TTL I/O lines configurable as input or output. One RS-485 half-duplex serial communication line is bussed over all RJ-45 connectors.
Watchdog
A hardware watchdog is available on the Picolo Pro 3. Its purpose is to monitor the software application and to restart the PC after an anomalous inactivity time-out. This ensures a reliable operation of unattended systems.
Bus mastering

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

Supported by
MultiCam Driver for Windows and Linux

MultiCam Driver:
The Multicam driver enables the consistent control of several Euresys frame grabbers, using an arbitrary number of cameras, from one or several software applications. Multicam allows defining channels linking cameras to buffers in the PC memory. The Multicam channel identifies all parameters ruling the acquisition process from a camera. Every camera feature, such as its type, resolution or image format, is described and controlled through simple parameters, considerably easing the camera control task. For each channel-controlled camera, a set of dedicated parameters is created from a CAM file. Euresys delivers pre-defined files for many popular cameras; still the user can customize its CAM file. MultiCam complies with most development enviroments like MS Visual C++, Borland C++ Builder, Delphi and Active X.
Linux is also supported.
EasyMultiCam C++

EasyMultiCam:
Offered as a part of the eVision tools suite, EasyMulticam is a set of powerful C++ classes embedding the whole MultiCam functionality. The object oriented eVision functions define image containers suitable for image processing and analysis. The image objects inherit acquisition methods from EasyMultiCam. Implementing the image capture code into a machine vision application is now straightforward.
per PC more than one card can be used

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