Snapper-PMC-8 Active Silicon Analog Video Acquisition Board -Conformal Coated

The Active Silicon Snapper-PMC-8/24 Series Analog Video Acquisition Boards are high speed PCI boards for the acquisition of standard CCIR or EIA/RS-170 video standards as well as slow scan and line scan cameras. The board is manufactured in two variants, Snapper-PMC-24 for RGB color or monochrome video, and Snapper-PMC-8 for monochrome only. Each channel is digitized via an 8 bit ADC, processed through an 8-bit programmable LUT (Look-Up Table), and then stored in on-board frame memory. Four software selectable inputs allow 4 RGB cameras or 12 mono cameras to be connected to a Snapper-PMC-24 (or 4 mono cameras to a Snapper-PMC-8). A custom FPGA (field programmable gate array) then performs optional sub-sampling and region of interest generation for maximum flexibility and readout speed. The on-board frame buffer consists of two banks, each capable of holding 256K pixels. The frame memory architecture allows de-interlacing on readout. A programmable PLL (phase locked loop) and sync generator combined with the custom FPGA provides versatile sync and clock options for both input and output. An on-board hardware Data Mapper provides mapping and packing functions for the conversion of data, if required, to pixel formats suitable for immediate display. PMC (PCI Mezzanine Card) is a subset of the CMC (Common Mezzanine Card) IEEE standard P1386, that uses the industry standard PCI interface bus. Snapper-PMC-24 is fully compliant with this standard.