eInfochips unveils IPNetCam

Story link: eInfochips unveils IPNetCam by Jan Harris

Embedded R&D company eInfochips is offering an IP network camera reference design that runs Linux on Texas Instruments� DaVinci technology.

TMS320DM446 DaVinci technology brings together a C64x+ DSP core, clocked at 594 MHz, with an ARM926EJ-S core clocked at 297MHz.

eInfochips claims that IPNetCam is among the first camera designs to support dual streaming.

While differential compression schemes like MPEG-4 produce better video, higher quality still images can be extracted from motion JPEGs. The still images may be vital for subject identification.

The dual mode encoding feature is designed to supply both JPEGs and differential video, streaming one JPEG and two MPEG-4 or H.264 image frames simultaneously. Users can choose the appropriate combination of encoding to suit environmental conditions and monitoring applications.

The camera uses ObjectVideo OnBoard technology - a hardware image analysis coprocessor. This provides rule-based object detection, classification, tracking and real-time alerting.

The eInfochips design is available now.