The FalconEye is a high quality color/monochrome Video Digitizer/Compression Engine, capable of switching the video sources, digitizing, compressing and storing the compressed video data to either fixed or removable media. The compressed data may also be transmitted to a local/remote location through LAN, WAN or Internet. The FalconEye supports colored (NTSC/PAL/Y-C) or monochrome (RS-170/CCIR) video sources. The on board compression hardware is capable of processing 60 fields per second of CCIR601 format of digital video. The FalconEye provides up to 16 Event Inputs and 2 Strobe outputs. Event inputs may be programmed with any combination of AND/OR to generate an Alarm Signal.

Videos from up to 16 cameras (Extended) may be selected for recording/transmission. Up to 8 video sources are supported on the MDR-36 36 pin connector. The total number of active channels and the frame rate of each individual channel are programmable by software. A video output provides a preview of the selected channel on a video monitor.

The on-board compression engine, using wavelet compression technology, provides a wide range of compression ratios. The compression ratio (or targeted code size) for each channel can be set independently. On Alarm condition, the frame rate and/or the compression ratio may be changed to provide maximum information. The compression engine can be used to perform real time decompression. Or the host may do the decompression while the chip is working on normal recording. This is referred to as Duplex Operation.

List price of the board starts at $495.00. OEM quantity discounts are available.