Image/VGA-460 PCI bus Frame Grabber




PCI Local Bus Video Digitizer
Integrated VGA with RGB and monochrome image capture

PCI Local Bus Video Digitizer


Ordering Information

Image/VGA-460 Series Specifications

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Image/VGA-460 PDF User's Guide

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Last update: 9/09/2002

Features
  • Single slot PCI board Frame Grabber and VGA Display
  • Integrated VGA accelerator from S3
  • Real time Digitizing/Display of Video
  • Programmable position/size of Digitizing Window
  • Non-destructive color key overlay of text and graphics on live video
  • Standard RS-170/CCIR and nonstandard (progressive scan) suppport
  • Monochrome and RGB color video
  • Color 24 bit (RGB-888) and 32 bit (xRGB-8888) format supported
  • Scatter/gather DMA transfer of data to system memory
  • 4 monochrome and 2 RGB video channels, software selectable
  • 8 or 16 MB DRAM
  • Locks to VCRs
  • Scalable Video in a Window
  • Hardware Triggered Grab
  • 12V DC camera power output
  • Software Developer's Kits under DOS, Windows 95/98 and Windows NT/2000/XP
  • 4 channels of Event, Strobe and Trigger signals

Applications

  • Industrial Vision
  • Medical Imaging
  • Image Analysis
  • Microscopy
  • Image Data Base
  • Security
  • Identification Systems

Summary
The Image/VGA-460 is a member of the Image/VGA-4xx series. High quality RGB or monochrome video images can be digitized and displayed in real time inside a resizable video window on the computer's VGA monitor. Text and graphics can be written into the VGA memory and, using a color key, overlaid non-destructively on top of the live video.
Image/VGA-460 is a fully functional VGA controller. Display resolutions, with a live video window, of up to 1280x1024x32 bits are supported. The VGA graphics and video may have different color depths. The VGA data can be independently double buffered.
Image/VGA-460 provides 12V DC power through the DB-15HD connector for supplying power to the camera.
A Strobe signal, controlled by the 16-bit counter can be used to control the camera exposure/integration. The Event Trigger starts the Strobe on an external event. A hardware trigger allows the capture of the next field or next frame of video.




Image/VGA-460 Specifications
Analog Video Input
  • Up to 4 composite monochrome video, software selectable
  • Up to 2 RGB color video, software selectable
  • RS-170/CCIR or non-standard video
  • DB-15HD connector

Digitizer

  • High precision 10 bit A/D converters at up to 33 MSPS
  • 640x480 for NTSC, 768x575 for PAL
  • 24 bits RGB color
  • 8 bits monochrome
  • Programmable contrast/brightness control
  • Programmable Top, Bottom and Clamping level control on R, G and B channels
  • 16 banks of 256x8 LUT for mono and RGB channels

VGA Display Controller

  • VGA accelerator
  • 640 x 480 x 32/16/8 bits
  • 800 x 600 x 32/16/8 bits
  • 1024 x 768 x 32/16/8 bits
  • 1280 x 1024 x 32/16/8 bits
Memory
  • 8 or 16 MB SDRAM
  • VGA data and Video data stored in separate areas of the buffer
  • VGA data can be independently double buffered
  • VGA and Video data may have different pixel depths

External Camera Control

  • 4 Independent Channels for Event, Strobe and Trigger
  • 16 bit counter for controlling Integration/Exposure
  • Hardware/Software trigger for frame/field grabbing
  • 10 bit delay counter
  • 12 volt DC output for camera power

Software Developer's Kit

  • DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT and Windows XP DLLs
  • TWAIN Driver
  • MCI Driver
  • Source code examples provided

 

Security device

Optional Sync Generator

Specifications subject to change without notice




Image/VGA-460 Ordering Information
(January 31, 2001)

IV460-8M
Image/VGA-460 with 8 Mbytes of DRAM allows VGA of 1280 x 1024 x 16 million colors with video in a window and color key overlays
IV460-16M
Image/VGA-460 with 16 Mbytes of DRAM allows VGA of 1280 x 1024 x 16 million colors with video in a window and color key overlays.
VC-DB15-12
Video cable to 1 RGB input and 3 Composite video BNC
or, 2 RGB inputs or, 4 Composite video BNC
BNCs for Event, Strobe, Trigger, Sync and External Pixel Clock
IV400SDK-x
Software Developers Kit (specify DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98 or Windows NT/2000/XP) includes software manual and one year of updates. No royalty for derived code.


All boards come with a Windows utility that allows the user to grab and save images in .tif, .tga, or .bmp file formats and an installation guide.




MuTech Corp. December 2003
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